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Troezen was one of the children of Pelops [1] [2] and Hippodamia, and thus brother to Pittheus, Alcathous, Dimoetes, [3] Pleisthenes, Atreus, Thyestes, Copreus, Hippalcimus, Sciron, Cleones, Letreus, Astydameia, Nicippe, Lysidice and Eurydice. Troezen was the father of Anaphlystus and Sphettus, who migrated to Attica and gave their names to two ...
Troezen girls traditionally dedicated a lock of their hair to him before their marriage. Sybaris in Magna Graecia was a Troezenian colony (founded 720 BC). [7] Before the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), Athenian women and children were sent to Troezen for safety on the instructions of the Athenian statesman Themistocles.
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Decree of Themistocles, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, 13330. The Decree of Themistocles or Troezen Inscription is an ancient Greek inscription, found at Troezen, discussing Greek strategy in the Greco-Persian Wars, purported to have been issued by the Athenian assembly under the guidance of Themistocles. Since the publication of its ...
Pittheus was a son of Pelops and Dia [2] [3] (maybe another name for Hippodamia), father of Aethra [4] [5] and Henioche, [6] and grandfather and instructor of Theseus.. He was described by Euripides as the most pious son of Pelops, a wise man, and well versed on understanding the oracle thus sought by Aegeus. [7]
Bellerophon came to Troezen to ask Aethra's father, Pittheus, for the maiden's hand in marriage, but the hero was banished from Corinth before the nuptials took place. [6] Demophon (?) freeing Aethra, Attic white-ground kylix, 470–460 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.
Althepus renamed the land Oraea, which he ruled, and called it Althepia. [2] These are the former names of the land about Troezen. In the reign of this king, Poseidon and Athena contended, as at Athens, for the land of the Troezenians, but, through the mediation of Zeus, they became the joint guardians of the country.
According to a Troezenian legend, there came once during an insurrection at Troezen two Cretan maidens, Auxesia and Damia, whom some writers assume was a disguised Demeter, and who, in editions of the ancient geographer Pausanias, is called Lamia (though perhaps this is only an incorrect reading for Damia).