Eumolpus
Flung into the sea by his mother but recovered by Poseidon and brought up in Ethiopia. King of Thrace after Tegyrius.
Genealogy
Benthesicyme (foster-mother)
Aethusa, Agenor, Aloeus, Amycus, Antaeus, Arion, Asopus, Augeas, Belus, Benthesicyme, Busiris, Cenchrias, Cercyon, Charybdis, Chrysaor, Cromus, Cteatus, Cychreus, Dercynus, Ephialtes, Epopeus, Erginus, Eryx, Euphemus, Eurypylus, Eurytus, Halirrhothius, Hippothoon, Hippo, Hopleus, Hyperenor, Hyrieus, Ialebion, Ida, Leches, Lelex, Lycus, Mygdon, Nauplius, Neleus, Nireus, Orion, Otus, Pegasus, Pelias, Peratus, Periclymenus, Phineus, Poltys, Polyphemus, Proteus, Rhode, Sarpedon, Sciron, Taphius, Thasus, Triops, Triton
Events
- Chione has sex with Poseidon and gives birth to Eumolpus in secret from her father
- Chione throws Eumolpus into the sea to escape discovery
- Poseidon, recovering Eumolpus, takes him to Ethiopia
- Poseidon entrusts Eumolpus to Benthesicyme to bring up
- When Eumolpus grows up, Benthesicyme’s husband gives him one of their two daughters as a wife
- Eumolpus tries to rape his wife’s sister and is exiled
- Eumolpus goes to Tegyrius with his son
- Tegyrius offers his daughter to Eumolpus’s son
- Eumolpus plots against Tegyrius and is discovered
- Eumolpus flees to the Eleusinians and becomes friends with them
- Upon Ismarus’s death, Eumolpus goes back to Tegyrios
- Eumolpus resolves his conflicts with Tegyrius
- Eumolpus succeeds Tegyrius on the throne
- The Eleusinians ask Eumolpus’s help in war with the Athenians
- Eumolpus and his large force of Thracians ally with the Eleusinians and fight the Athenians
- Erechtheus kills Eumolpus in battle
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