REALMS archive of entities

Tenages

deity earth Greek single tradition · 1

Tenages was one of the seven Heliadae, sons of Helios and Rhodos. He and his brothers succeeded the Telchines as rulers of Rhodes. According to a scholion to Pindar, the Rhodians called the younger Phaethon by the name Tenages.

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Named by Diodorus Siculus as one of the seven Heliadae; identified with the younger Phaethon by Rhodians.

Relationships

co occurs with
Lampetie, Aigle, Phaethousa, Telchines, Zeus, Aphrodite, Phaethon
sibling of
Electryone, Ochimus, Cercaphus, Actis, Macar, Candalus, Triopas
child of
Helios, Rhodos

Expand to full subgraph →

Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (1)
  1. Rhodos

Source passages

“A scholion to Pindar gives the same list of sons, with Macareus (for Macar) and naming the last Heliadae as Phaethon, 'the younger, whom the Rhodians call Tenages'.”

#11489 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5