Persepolis (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Persepolis (Ancient Greek: Περσέπολις, lit. 'the Persian city') or Perseptolis (Περσέπτολις) was the son of Telemachus.[1]

The 12th-century AD Byzantine scholar Eustathius of Thessalonica, in his commentary on the Odyssey, writes that the 8th- or 7th-century BC poet Hesiod considered the mother of Persepolis to be Polycaste, the daughter of Nestor.[2] In the same place in his commentary, Eustathius also states that Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, was said to be his mother by the 5th-century BC logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos and the 4th-century BC philosopher Aristotle.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ RE, s.v. Perseptolis.
  2. ↑ RE, s.v. Perseptolis; Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 168 [= Eustathius ad Odyssey, 1796.39]. See also: Scholia ad Odyssey 16.118
  3. ↑ RE, s.v. Perseptolis; Eustathius ad Odyssey 1796.41 [= Aristotle fr. 130]

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