Temenus
Greek · scion · post trojan war · Recorded classification
Son of Aristomachus and leader of the Heraclid return who received Argos. Herodotus presents the Macedonian founders as descendants of Temenus without supplying the intervening generations. Satyrus preserves a different, extended dynastic pedigree through Caranus; it is available as a separate claimed ancestry account.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- father: AristomachusApollodorus 2.8.2 (primary)
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestryOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
Claimed divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: AristomachusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Complete cited pedigree (6 ancestral accounts)
- AristomachusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: CleodaeusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- CleodaeusOnly the named father is supplied by this passage; the mother remains unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: HyllusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- HyllusOnly the parents named in the transmitted passage are included. Missing coparents remain unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: HeraclesSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- mother: DeianiraSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- HeraclesThe quoted pedigree explicitly calls Heracles son of Zeus but does not name his mother. Other accounts remain separately available. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: ZeusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- DeianiraThe pedigree names Dionysus and Althaea; the Oeneus account is preserved separately. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: DionysusSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- mother: AlthaeaSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- AlthaeaOnly the parents named in the transmitted passage are included. Missing coparents remain unknown. This is a dynastic ancestry claim, not established biological history.
- father: Thestius of AetoliaSatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Children in alternative accounts
- Ceisus: Satyrus: transmitted divine ancestrySatyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
Variant accounts
- source review correctionHerodotus 8.137–139 names Perdiccas and Temenid descent but does not supply a Caranus genealogy. The transmitted Satyrus pedigree is a separate account and has six named parent steps between Temenus and Caranus.Apollodorus, Library 2.7.7–2.8.5 (primary); Herodotus, Histories 8.137–139 (primary); Satyrus, genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (primary)
- source review correctionHerodotus 8.137–139 names Perdiccas and Temenid descent but does not supply a Caranus genealogy. The transmitted Satyrus pedigree is a separate account and has six named parent steps between Temenus and Caranus.Herodotus, Histories 8.137–139 (primary); Satyrus, genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (primary)
- source review correctionA precise fraction cannot be established by treating unnamed co-parents as mortal.Apollodorus, Library 2.7.7–2.8.5 (primary); Satyrus, genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (primary)
Powers
- Led the Heraclid conquest and won Argos by lot
Relations
- father: AristomachusApollodorus 2.8.2 (primary)
- sibling: CresphontesBrother through their shared father Aristomachus.Apollodorus 2.8.2-5 (primary)
- sibling: AristodemusBrother through their shared father Aristomachus.Apollodorus 2.8.2-5 (primary)
- father of: Hyrnetho (daughter of Temenus, wife of Deiphontes — favored heir) · GreekApollodorus 2.8.5; Pausanias 2.19.1, 2.28.6 (primary)
- father of: Cisus, Phalces, Cerynes, Agraeus, Agelaus (the conspiring sons who killed Temenus) · GreekThe five sons who conspired to murder Temenus over the succession.Apollodorus 2.8.5; Pausanias 2.19.1, 2.6.7 (primary)
- killed by: His own conspiring sons (Argive succession-crisis) · GreekApollodorus 2.8.5; Pausanias 2.19.1 (primary)
- father (dynastic pedigree): AristomachusNamed parent in the Satyrus pedigree; select that account to display the claimed lineage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)
- child (dynastic pedigree): CeisusNamed child in the Satyrus pedigree; this claim does not alter conventional default parentage.Satyrus, dynastic genealogy preserved in Theophilus, To Autolycus 2.7 (Greek text) (primary)