Demigod son of Apollo (with mortal cover-paternity of Cycnus king of Colonae) by Procleia daughter of Laomedon; eponymous founder of the Aegean island Tenedos (off the Trojan coast). After his stepmother Phylonome's false rape-accusation supported by the canonical-Greek false-flute-player witness, exposed in a chest with his sister Hemithea; the chest washed ashore at Leucophrys, where Tenes became king and renamed the island Tenedos. Cycnus later discovered the deception and sailed to reconcile, but Tenes cut the ship's mooring-cable with an axe — the canonical-Greek "to-cut-with-Tenedian-axe" (Τενεδίαν πέλεκυν) proverb of irreversible-rejection. Killed by Achilles when the Achaean fleet stopped at Tenedos during the Trojan-War advance — though Thetis had warned Achilles that killing Tenes would seal his own death-by-Apollo-arrow at Troy per Plut. Quaest. Graec. 28 and Apollod. Epit. 3.26. The canonical Achilles-Apollo death-prophecy structure: Tenes's killing is the action that ensures Apollo's eventual revenge through Paris's arrow at the Scaean Gate.