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Helenus was a Trojan

Trojan

Trojan originally referred to a citizen of the city of Troy made legendary by the Trojan War .Trojan may also refer to:Language...
soldier and prophet in the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
.

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Helenus (??e???) was the son of King Priam

Priam

In Greek mythology, Priam was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priimuua, which means "exceptionally courageous"....
and Queen Hecuba

Hecuba

Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy, with whom she had 19 children. The most famous of said children was Hector of Troy....
of Troy

Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
, and the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra

Cassandra

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy....
. He was also called Scamandrios. According to legend, Cassandra, having been given the power of prophecy by Apollo

Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
, taught it to her brother. Like Cassandra, he was always right, but unlike her, others believed him.

During the Trojan War, Helenus vied against his brother Deiphobus

Deiphobus

In Greek mythology, Deiphobus was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris ....
for the hand of Helen of Troy after the death of their brother Paris

Paris (mythology)

Paris , the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek mythology. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War....
, but Helen was awarded to Deiphobus.

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Helenus was a Trojan

Trojan

Trojan originally referred to a citizen of the city of Troy made legendary by the Trojan War .Trojan may also refer to:Language...
soldier and prophet in the Trojan War

Trojan War

In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
.

In Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Priam

Hecuba

Hecuba was a queen in Greek mythology, the wife of King Priam of Troy, with whom she had 19 children. The most famous of said children was Hector of Troy....
of Troy

Troy

Cassandra

Apollo

Deiphobus

Paris (mythology)

Mount Ida

In Greek mythology, two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida, the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida, Crete, and Mount Ida, Turkey, known as Mount Ida, Turkey in Classical times....
, where Odysseus

Odysseus

Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
later captured him. He told the Greek forces -- probably out of his disgruntlement -- under what circumstances they could take Troy. He said that they would win if they stole the Trojan Palladium

Palladium (mythology)

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a palladium or palladion was an Cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend....
, brought the bones of Pelops

Pelops

In Greek mythology, Pelops , king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus, was venerated at Olympia, Greece, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Ancient Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for the Peloponnesus, "land of Pelops", but for all Hellenes....
to Troy, and persuaded Neoptolemus

Neoptolemus

In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus was the son of the warrior Achilles and the princess Deidamia . Achilles' mother foretold many years before Achilles birth that there would be a great war....
(Achilles

Achilles

In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
' son by the Scyrian princess Deidamia) and Philoctetes

Philoctetes

In Greek mythology, Philoctetes was the son of King Poeas of Meliboea in Thessaly. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and was a participant in the Trojan War....
(who possessed Heracles

Heracles

In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
' bow and arrows) to join the Greeks in the war. Neoptolemus was hiding from the war at Scyrus, but the Greeks retrieved him. Alternatively, he told them that they would win if Troilus

Troilus

Troilus is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War. The first surviving reference to him is in Homer's Iliad which is believed to have been written in the late 9th century BC or 8th century BC....
, Helenus's brother, were killed before he turned twenty. Achilles's son Neoptolemus

Neoptolemus

Polyxena

Polyxena - ???????? was known to be a beautiful Troy princess from Greek mythology. She is the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba....
.

Neoptolemus had taken Helenus's sister-in-law, Andromache

Andromache

In Greek mythology, Andromache was the wife of Hector and daughter of Eetion, and sister to Podes. She was born and raised in the city of Cilician Thebe, over which her father ruled....
, as a slave and concubine after Hector

Hector

In Greek mythology, Hector , or Hektor, is a Troy prince and one of the greatest fighters in the Trojan War. He is the son of Priam and Hecuba, descendant of Dardanus, who lived under Mount Ida, and of Tros, the founder of Troy....
's death, and fathered Molossus

Molossus

Molossus has several meanings:*Molossus in Greek mythology, the son of Neoptolemus and Andromache. He became the ancestor of the Molossians....
, Pielus and Pergamus

Pergamus

In Greek mythology, Pergamus was the son of the warrior Neoptolemus and Andromache.In the Bible, Pergamus was quoted as an Asian Kingdom where the unknown being from the Revelations sends a message to seven churches around the world....
on her. After the fall of Troy, Helenus became a sort of vassal to Neoptolemus. He traveled with Neoptolemus, Andromache and their children to Epirus

Epirus (region)

Epirus is a region in south-eastern Europe, currently divided between the Peripheries of Greece Epirus in Greece and the prefectures of Gjirokast?r, Vlor?, Kor??, and Berat in southern Albania....
, where Neoptolemus permitted him to found the city of Buthrotum. After Neoptolemus left Epirus, he left Andromache and their sons in Helenus's care. Andromache bore him a son, Cestrinus

Cestrinus

In Greek mythology, Cestrinus was the only son of Helenus and Andromache. According to Pausanias, Cestrinus was upset when Andromache's son Molossus succeeded Helenus to the throne of Epirus....
, who is identified with Genger or Zenter, a legendary Trojan king and father of Franco

Franco (King)

Franco was a more or less legendary king of the Cimmerian Bosporus, the son and possible successor of Genger , who is questionably identified with Cestrinus, son of the mythical Trojan prince Helenus)....
. Some mythographers alleged that Helenus married Neoptolemus's mother, Deidamia, instead of Andromache. Helenus prophesied Aeneas

Aeneas

This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
' founding of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
when he and his followers stopped at Buthrotum.

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