Polydorus

In Greek mythology, Polydorus (/ˌpɒlᵻˈdɔːrəs/ or /ˌpɒlᵻˈdɒrəs/; Ancient Greek: Πολύδωρος, i.e. "many-gift[ed]") or Polydoros referred to several different people.

• An Argive, son of Hippomedon was called . Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died attempting the same thing.
• Prince Polydorus, son of the King Cadmus and goddess Harmonia, fathered Labdacus by his wife Nycteis.^[1]
• Prince Polydorus, a Trojan, was the King Priam's youngest son.^[2]
• Polydorus (son of Astyanax)^[3]
• Polydorus of Sparta (reigned from c. 741 to c. 665 BC)

In art, Polydorus was:

• One of the three Rhodian sculptors who created the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons and signed the Sperlonga sculptures

Notes

1. Bibliotheca 3.5.2.
2. Euripides, and Marilyn Nelson. Hecuba. U Penn Press, 1998
3. Google Books - Lineage of the Saints