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Tydeus, son of Oeneus, king of Calydon; being forced to fly from
Calydon on account of a murder he had committed, he took refuge
with Adrastus, king of Argos, who gave him his daughter Deipyle to
wife, by whom he became the father of Diomedes. He accompanied
Adrastus on the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, and was
there wounded by Menalippus, whom he succeeded in slaying, though
the wound he had received was mortal; as he lay upon the ground
Minerva appeared to him with a remedy, which was to make him
immortal, but, finding him engaged in gnawing the head of
Menalippus (which had been brought to him by Amphiaraus with the
design of defeating the object of the goddess), she turned away in
horror and left him to die
({Theb. viii. 732-766}).
D. compares Ugolino gnawing the head of the Archbishop Ruggieri in
Circle IX of Hell to Tydeus gnawing that of Menalippus,
[Inf. xxxii, 130-132]
[Menalippo:
Ugolino, Conte]; his adventures with Polynices at the court of
Adrastus, as narrated by Statius in the Thebaid,
Conv. IV. xxv. 6, 8
[Adrasto].
©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee
(1968) by permission of Oxford University Press