Theano

This article is about the mythological figures. For the philosopher, see Theano (philosopher). For other uses, see Theano (disambiguation).

Theano (/θɪˈæn/; Ancient Greek: Θεανώ) was the priestess of Athena in Troy.

Life

Theano was the daughter of the Thracian king Cisseus and Telecleia,[1] wife of Antenor, and mother of many sons and a daughter Crino.[2] The household of Antenor and Theano advocated peace and advised Helen's return to the Greeks. Because of their support (some say treason[3]), the Greeks spared their household when they sacked the city.[4][5] One story has Theano and Antenor sailing with Aeneas to Italy and founding the city of Padua.[6] Another story is that she took the Palladium, an image of Athena that had fallen from the sky and supposedly provided Troy its protection, with her.[7][8][9] In Book VI of the Iliad, with Hecuba and the Trojan women, Theano offered a gift and plea to Athena for the life of the city, but was rebuffed.[10]

Other uses

Theano is also the name of three more (minor) figures in Greek and Roman mythology.

Notes

  1. Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba, 3
  2. Homer, Iliad, 6. 298-300; 11. 221
  3. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 340-347
  4. Dictys Cretensis, Posthomerica, 5. 5
  5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 27. 3
  6. Servius on Aeneid, 1. 242
  7. Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 6. 331
  8. Suda s. v. Palladion
  9. Dictys Cretensis, Posthomerica, 5. 8
  10. Homer, Iliad, 6. 300 ff
  11. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
  12. Virgil, Aeneid, 10. 689-702
  13. Hyginus, Fabulae, 186

References

"Theano". Project Continua. Retrieved 1 February 2014. 


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