#epopeus

[dilutedh2so4]

Menelaus returns and plans an expedition against Ilium with his brother, and then goes on to Nestor. Nestor in a digression tells him how Epopeus was utterly destroyed after seducing the daughter of Lycus, and the story of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, and the story of Theseus and Ariadne. 

Proclus' Chrestomathia, synopsis of the Cypria.

Honestly. What was Nestor on about here? I can see how Epopeus and Theseus' respective stories relate to Paris and Helen, but why did he bring up Heracles and Oedipus??

[aliciavance4228]

Honestly, besides an alternative version where he's the one who raped Antiope instead of Zeus, kudos to Epopeus for marrying a pregnant woman in order to protect her and ever fighting against her father in a war for her safety.

[aliciavance4228]

Pausanias, Description of Greece:

"This woman Epopeus carried off but I do not know whether he asked for her hand or adopted a bolder policy from the beginning. The Thebans came against him in arms, and in the battle Nycteus was wounded. Epopeus also was wounded, but won the day. Nycteus they carried back ill to Thebes, and when he was about to die he appointed to be regent of Thebes his brother Lycus for Labdacus, the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus, being still a child, was the ward of Nycteus, who on this occasion entrusted the office of guardian to Lycus. He also besought him to attack Aegialea with a larger army and bring vengeance upon Epopeus; Antiope herself, if taken, was to be punished."