In Greek mythology, Peneleos ( Pēneléōs) or, less commonly, Peneleus ( Pēnéleos), son of Hippalcimus (HippalmusApollodorus, 1.9.16) and Asterope,Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.7; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 was an Achaean soldier in the Trojan War.
Mythology Before the war began he was said to have sailed with the Argonauts;Apollodorus, 1.9.16 he also was one of the suitors of Helen, which obliged him to join in the campaign against Troy.Apollodorus, 3.10.8 He came from Boeotia and commanded 12 ships.Homer, Iliad 2.494; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 It is also said that Peneleos was chosen to command the Boeotian troops because Tisamenus, son and successor of Thersander, was still too young.
When Poemander attempted to avoid serving in the Trojan War, he accidentally slew his own son Leucippus, and Peneleos was among those who escorted him to be purified by Elephenor on Chalcis.Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 37
Peneleos killed two Trojans,Hyginus, Fabulae 114 IlioneusHomer, Iliad 14.489 and Lycon,Homer, Iliad 16.340 was wounded by PolydamasHomer, Iliad 17.597–600 and was killed by Eurypylus (son of Telephus).Pausanias, 9.5.15Dictys Cretensis, 4.17 He left a son Opheltes, whose own son (Peneleos' grandson) Damasichthon succeeded Autesion, son of Tisamenus, as the ruler over Thebes.Pausanias, 9.5.16
His descendant, Philotas of Thebes, was said to be the founder of Priene in Ionia.
See also Thersanon Scamandrius
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