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Aretias

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Canonical name
Aretias
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Individual
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Aliases

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king Aretias

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Location presence

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Claims

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·Direct

King Aretias is identified as Nisus’s father and Amphinomus’s grandfather.

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“Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost”
·Direct

Aretias is identified as Nisus’s father and Amphinomus’s grandfather.

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“Nisus, who was son to Aretias,”

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“king Aretias”
·Direct
“Nisus, who was son to Aretias”

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 36

They all held their peace until Amphinomus rose to speak. He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors from the wheat-growing and well grassed island of Dulichium; his conversation, moreover, was more agreeable to Penelope than that of any of the other suitors, for he was a man of good natural disposition. ‘My friends,’ said he, speaking to them plainly and in all honestly, ‘I am not in favour of killing Telemachus. It is a heinous thing to kill one who is of noble blood. Let us first take counsel of the gods, and if the oracles of Jove advise it, I will both help to kill him myself, and will urge everyone else to do so; but if they dissuade us, I would have you hold your hands.’