Clymene

A relative of Menelaus and a companion of Helen, together with whom she was carried off by Paris.1 After the taking of Troy, when the booty was distributed, Clymene was given to Acamas.

She was represented as a captive by Polygnotus in the Lesche of Delphi.2

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad iii, 144; Dictys Cretensis, i, 3; v, 13.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece x, 26.1; comp. Ovid. Heroides xvii, 267.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.