Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Tlepolemus.
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Iliad
Homer
Book II and V — Tlepolemus leads the Rhodians, boasts his Heraclid blood to Sarpedon, and dies by the Lycian's spear.
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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus' Heraclid exile — Tlepolemus kills Licymnius, flees to Rhodes, and founds the three Rhodian cities.
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Tlepolemus
Son of Heracles who colonizes Rhodes — Iliadic captain and eponym of Rhodian Heraclid kingship.