Tlepolemus (disambiguation)
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Tlepolemus is the name of several ancient Greek mythological and historical characters:
- TlepolemusTlepolemusFor others of this name see Tlepolemus In Greek mythology, Tlepolemus is the son of Heracles by Astyocheia, daughter of the King of Ephyra. Either that or he was the son of Melite and the second of the two sons of Hercules who goes by the name of Hyllus...
, son of Heracles, who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War - Tlepolemus (general)Tlepolemus (general)For other persons with the same name, see Tlepolemus Tlepolemus was the son of Pythophanes and one of the hetairoi of Alexander the Great, who was joined in the government of the Parthians and Hyrcanii with Amminapes, a Parthian, whom Alexander had appointed satrap of those provinces...
, one of the generals of Alexander the Great in 336-323 BC - Tlepolemus (regent of Egypt)Tlepolemus (regent of Egypt)Tlepolemus was regent of Egypt in the Ptolemaic period under the reign of the boy-king Ptolemy V. He was briefly prominent at the end of the 3rd century BC; his dates of birth and death are not known....
, regent in Ptolemaic Egypt around 200 BC