Galaxy/The codex of Hellanicus

One of Penelope's suitors in Apollodorus' catalogue of the fifty-seven wooers from Dulichium — attested only among the wooers who came against Odysseus' house, and not to be confused with the later historian of that name.1

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Apollodorus names Hellanicus among the suitors who devoured Odysseus' substance, listed after Pseras and before Periphron in the long company of Penelope's wooers.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Hellanicus — art, artifacts and echoes.

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