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Thoas

Andraimon was the husband of Gorge, the daughter of Oeneus and Althaea. Andraimon was the father of Thoas (Θόας).

Andraimon received the kingdom of Calydon, either because Oeneus was too old to rule, or because the aged king had died. However, his own reign was short, because his son Thoas became king of Calydon during the Trojan War.

As a former suitor of Helen, Thoas took forty ships to Troy. Thoas returned safely home after the Trojan War. When Neoptolemus banished Odysseus from Ithaca for the death of Penelope's suitors, Thoas offered Odysseus refuge in Calydon, and married his daughter to the exiled king. Thoas' daughter bore Leotophonus to Odysseus.

Thoas also had a son named Haemon. Nothing more is known about Thoas, but Thoas' grandson Oxylus won the fertile kingdom of Elis, when he helped the invasion of the Heraclids.

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Oeneus

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Idomeneus (Ἰδομενεές) was a son of Deucalion. He was also the brother of Crete and the half-brother of Molus. Idomeneus was the nephew of Catreus. Idomeneus married Meda, and became the father of Cleisithyra and Idamante. Idomeneus was a former su...

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Laomedon

Laomedon (Λαομέδον) was the son of Ilus, the founder of Troy, and of Eurydice. Laomedon became king of Ilium (Troy) after his father's death. The new king married Strymo, Placia or Leucippe. Whichever woman he married, he was the father of Podarce...

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Peleus

A king of Phthia, in Thessaly. Peleus (Πηλεύς) was the son of Aeacus (Aiacos), king of Aegina, and Endeïs. He and his brother Telamon plotted to kill their half-brother Phocus, son of Aeacus by the Nereïd (Nereid) Psamathe, because he excelled in ...

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