ABSTRACT
Son of Oeneus, king of Calydon, by his second wife Periboea or his daughter Gorge. His uncle Agrius, who had usurped Oeneus’ throne, exiled him from Calydon for homicide. Whom he had killed, however, was variously stated-it was either his brother Olenias, or his uncle Alcathous, Oeneus’ brother, or else the eight sons of Melas, another of his uncles. After his murderous deed, Tydeus took refuge at the court of King Adrastus of Argos. There he had a quarrel with another refugee, Polynices of Thebes. Adrastus stopped the fight, and married his daughters Deipyle and Argia to the pair in response to an oracle which had bidden him give them in marriage to a lion and a boar-for Tydeus was clothed in the hide of a boar draped over his shoulders, and Polynices wore a lionskin, or else the two bore these beasts as emblems on their shields.
