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Cisseus

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Canonical name
Cisseus
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

1

Cisses

Alternative name · Remembered

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

1
·Direct

Cisses raises his grandson Iphidamas and later seeks to retain him through marriage to his daughter.

See evidence text
“Cisses, his mother’s father, brought him up in his own house when he was a child—Cisses, father to fair Theano. When he reached manhood, Cisses would have kept him there, and was for giving him his daughter in marriage”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“Theano, daughter of Cisseus”
·Remembered
“Cisses, his mother’s father”

Passage preview

Book 6 · Passage 22

When they reached the temple of Minerva, lovely Theano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors, for the Trojans had made her priestess of Minerva. The women lifted up their hands to the goddess with a loud cry, and Theano took the robe to lay it upon the knees of Minerva, praying the while to the daughter of great Jove. ‘Holy Minerva,’ she cried, ‘protectress of our city, mighty goddess, break the spear of Diomed and lay him low before the Scaean gates. Do this, and we will sacrifice twelve heifers that have never yet known the goad, in your temple, if you will have pity upon the town, with the wives and little ones of the Trojans.’ Thus she prayed, but Pallas Minerva granted not her prayer.