Galaxy/The codex of Teutamides

Teutamides (Ancient Greek Τευταμίδης) was a king of Larissa in Thessaly in whose father's funeral games Perseus accidentally killed Acrisius with a discus, fulfilling the oracle that Danaë's son would slay her father. The atlas keeps him distinct from Homeric Teutamus, grandfather of the Pelasgian captains at Troy.

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I.Funeral games and Acrisius

Apollodorus (Bibliotheca 2.4.4) sets the death of Acrisius at athletic games held in Larissa. Perseus' quoit strikes his grandfather's foot; the wound kills the Argive king and closes the oracle that had driven Danaë and the infant into exile.

Wikipedia's Teutamides stub also folds in Hellanicus' Amyntorid genealogy and Homeric Lethus — material the atlas assigns carefully across nodes.

II.Homonyms

This node (teutamides-larissa) is the Larissan king of the Perseus episode. He is not Teutamus father of Pelasgian Lethus in Homer's Trojan catalogue (teutamus-pelasgian), nor the historical Macedonian officer Teutamus.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameTeutamidēs (Τευταμίδης)
Roman nameTeutamides
Typemortal
Domainsking of Larissa · the Pelasgian land · funeral games
Cult centersLarissa (Thessaly)
EtymologyTeutamidēs is a patronymic formation; ancient authors sometimes write Teutamus / Teutamias for related Larissan figures.
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