Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Sthenelus.
The gallery
Sthenelos bandaging the wounded finger of Diomedes
Unknown (after Chalcidian amphora), after c. 550 BC
Wellcome ink drawing after a Chalcidian neck-amphora: Sthenelus binds Diomedes' wounded finger — Capaneus' son as the comrade who tends the Argive champion in the Iliad's orbit.
Sthenelos and Diomedes
Baumeister (after ancient vase), 1885
Nineteenth-century Baumeister plate of Sthenelus with Diomedes — the Epigone and chariot-mate whose Iliadic vaunt answers Agamemnon with Capaneus' son's pride.
In play
Iliad
Homer
Book IV — Sthenelus answers Agamemnon beside Diomedes: we took Thebes when our fathers failed. Capaneus' son as the Epigone who still rides at Troy.
Epigoni
The sons who avenged the Seven — Sthenelus marches among them before he becomes Diomedes' steadfast companion at Troy.
Sthenelus (son of Capaneus)
Son of Capaneus, Epigone and Iliadic comrade of Diomedes — distinct from Sthenelus the Perseid father of Eurystheus.