Polydamna

Polydamna (Πολύδαμνα) is a figure from Greek mythology.

Mentioned in Homer’s Odyssey,^[1] she is the wife of Thōn (Θῶν, gen: Θῶνος). They are both Egyptians. Polydamna gave Helen, wife of Menelaus, nepenthe i.e. a drug that has “the power of robbing grief and anger of their sting and banishing all painful memories” and which Helen slipped into the wine that Telemachus and Menelaus were drinking.

References

↑ Homer. Odyssey 4.228

Characters in the Odyssey

House of Odysseus	Penelope (wife) Telemachus (son) Anticlea (mother) Laërtes (father) Autolycus (grandfather) Eurycleia (chief servant) Mentor (advisor) Phemius (musician) Argos (pet-dog)

Monarchs and royals	Alcinous of Phaeacia Arete of Phaeacia Nestor of Pylos Menelaus of Sparta Princess Nausicaa of Phaeacia Agamemnon of Mycenae

Gods	Athena Apollo Artemis Atlas Calypso Circe Hermes Poseidon Zeus Oceanus

Others	Achilles Aeolus Ajax Amphimedon Anticlus Antiphates Antiphus Aretus Cyclopes Demodocus Demoptolemus Deucalion Dolius Echephron Echetus Elpenor Eumaeus Eupeithes Euryalus Eurylochus Halitherses Helen Heracles Idomeneus Irus Kikonians Laodamas Laestrygones Medon Melantho Mentes Old Man of the Sea Peisistratus Perimedes Perseus Philoetius Polites Polydamna Polyphemus Scylla and Charybdis Sirens Stratichus Tiresias Theoclymenus Thrasymedes

Suitors	Agelaus Amphinomus Antinous Ctesippus Eurymachus Leodes Melanthius

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