In Greek mythology, Philomela (Ancient Greek: Φιλομήλα) is identified by Gaius Julius Hyginus as the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.[1][2] The former was one of the Argonauts and the latter a participant of the Trojan War. However, the Bibliotheca listed three other wives of Menoetius and possible mothers of Patroclus:[3]
- Periopis,[4] daughter of Pheres, founder of Pherae
- Polymele, daughter of Peleus, King of Phthia and an older half-sister to Achilles and
- Sthenele,[5][6] daughter of Acastus and Astydameia.
In some accounts, Damocrateia, daughter of Aegina and Zeus was also called the wife of Menoetius and mother of Patroclus.[7]
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 1498; Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.343 and 17.134; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 430, pp. 41, Prologue 525. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.8
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.46
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.14
- ^ Pythaenetos, quoting the scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.107