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[jejesoso]

Apollo: I decided to create a club on how Achilles is trash, anyone wants to join?

Paris, Aeneas, Memnon, Kyknus, Briseis, Penthesileia, Diomede, Polyxena, Troilus, Tennes, Hemithea, Andromache, Hector: I DO!!!

[amiti-art]

I posted about Troilus last week so I decided to clean up my old sketches of Tennes, his sister and their father for this week.

Cycnus was the king of Colonae (located near Troy) and the son of Posaidon. (His name means swan btw)

He married the princess of Troy named Procleia (she was either daughter or granddaugter Laomedon) and had 2 childern with her: Tennes and Hemithea. Some versions say that Tennes was son of Apollo and he was only being rised by Cycnus (this is going to be important later)

At some point Procleia died and Cycnus remarried. His new wife Philonome, fell in love with Tennes and when he regected her she told Cycnus that Tennes forced himself on her (or tried to). A flute-player named Eumolpus confirmed her version of events.

Enraged by this Cycnus put both Tennes and Hemithea in a wooden chest and throw them into the sea (some versions say Hemithea shared her brother's punishment willingly).

They made it safely to an island called Leukophrys (it was later renamed Tenedos) and become the new rulers of the land.

Cycuns somehow learned that his wife's accusations against Tennes were false so he buried her alived while Eumolpus (the flute-player) was stoned to death.

After founding out that his childern survived Cycnus sailed to Tenedos to ask Tennes' forgivnes and take them both home.

Tennes however didn't care for his apology and he cut the anchor ropes off the ship with an axe so Cycnus couldn't step on the land.

Tennes ruled his island for some time, he established a law which stated that the folse accusations were punisheble by death by an axe (Tennes really liked axes, didn't he).

Also flute-players were forbided from entering either the temples or the entire island.

Okay remember when I said earlier that Apollo was Tennes' real father and it was important? Yeah we're getting there.

When the Greeks were traveling to Troy they stopped on Tenedos. Thetis told Achilles that he can't kill the king of the Island because whoever kills Tennes will be killed by his father Apollo. Achilles however tried to force himself on Hemithea. Tennes tried to defend his sister but he was killed by Achilles. When Achilles realized who he killed he also killed his servant because the servant (who was sent to him by Thetis to remind him not to kill the king) failed to inform Achilles that he's about to kill the man he's not supossed to.

Some versions also mention a bigger fight and say that Tennes was also protecting his country. Most of the sources don't mention what happened to Hemithea afterwords but one text claim that she was swallowed by the earth which saved her from being violated by Achilles. Another says that she was killed by Achilles but don't mention anything about the assault.

It was forbidden to say Achilles name in the tample build after Tennes death.

Meanwhile Cycnus joined the Trojan forces and fought alongside Hector (who was his first wife's nephew btw, which means that Hector and Tennes were first cousins). Like his childern he was killed by Achilles, on the first day of the war.

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

TENNES & HEMITHEA

In Greek mythology, Tennes and Hemithea were either the children of King Kyknos of Colonae, or his step-children (fathered by Apollo). Kyknos's second wife falsely accused Tennes of assaulting her when Tennes rejected her advances. Kyknos believed the accusations and tried to kill Tennes and Hemithea by placing them in a chest, which was set into the ocean. However, the chest landed at the island of Leucophrye, which was later renamed Tenedos, and they survived. The natives of the island pronounced Tennes their king. Kyknos later learned the truth and tried to reconcile with his children, but Tennes rejected his overture: when Kyknos's ship landed at Tenedos, Tennes took an axe and cut the moorings. Tennes fought with Achilles when Achilles had tried to assault his sister. Hemithea ran and was swallowed up in a chasm of the earth. Tennes died when Achilles plunged a sword into his heart. Even though Thetis had previously warned her son against doing so, for Tennes's death would be avenged by Apollo, Achilles was heedless and sealed his death by Apollo's hands. Shortly after the end of the Trojan War, Agamemnon permitted the Trojan prisoners of war to build a city north of Mycenea. The city was called Tenea after Tennes, and the Tenedians founded a sanctuary of Tennes to commemorate his virtues. The name of Achilles was not to be uttered in it. 

[rie-k-photo]

'Tennesvatnet' - Lofoten, Norway by Kristofer Williams http://ift.tt/2yJJX3p

[jejesoso]

She tried

Thetis: my son if you want to survive this war, don't kill the son of Apollo

Achilles :

Thetis: ...why are you like this?

[pinnoart]

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[mauricedemauriaczurich]

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[johanneimmis]

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