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wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus

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Canonical name
wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Argos1 observation
·Remembered

In Agamemnon’s recollected story, the wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus is then in Achaean Argos.

See evidence text
“For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was.”

Claims

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·Reported

Sthenelus’s wife is described as noble, seven months pregnant, and made to give birth a month early by Juno.

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“the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was. She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting”

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·Reported
“noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus”

Passage preview

Book 19 · Passage 10

‘Thus she spoke, and Jove suspected her not, but swore the great oath, to his much ruing thereafter. For Juno darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus then was. She being with child and in her seventh month, Juno brought the child to birth though there was a month still wanting, but she stayed the offspring of Alcmena, and kept back the Ilithuiae. Then she went to tell Jove the son of Saturn, and said, ‘Father Jove, lord of the lightning—I have a word for your ear. There is a fine child born this day, Eurystheus, son to Sthenelus the son of Perseus; he is of your lineage; it is well, therefore, that he should reign over the Argives.’