Tisamenus

Scion son of Orestes and Hermione, the last king of the house of Atreus to hold Argos, Mycenae and Sparta. His reign ends the Pelopid dominance of the Peloponnese: at the return of the Heraclidae he was defeated and killed, and his Achaean followers migrated to the north coast that thereafter bore the name Achaea.

Parentage

• paternal: Orestes
• maternal: Hermione

Domains

• kingship

Relations

• parent of: Cometes and Penthilus (sons of Tisamenus in the Achaean migration tradition) · GreekSons who led the Achaeans after his death; entries pending.Paus. 2.18.7-8, 7.6.1-2 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Apollodorus 2.8.2-3; Pausanias 2.18.6-7, 7.1.7-8; Herodotus reference to the Heraclidae return (primary)
• parentage: Apollodorus 2.8.2-3 (son of Orestes and Hermione) (primary)