Polymestor
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right|thumb|250px|Polymnestor kills Polydorus. Engraving by Bauer for Ovid's Metamorphoses
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- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Ilione
- Child
- Deipylus
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- Plaque with Scene of the Discovery of the Murder of Polydorus LACMA 51.13.1.jpg
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- Polymestor
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right|thumb|250px|Polymnestor kills Polydorus. Engraving by Bauer for Ovid's Metamorphoses
In Greek mythology, Polymestor or Polymnestor () was a king of the Bistonians in Thrace. Polymestor appears in Euripides' play Hecuba and in the Ovidian myth "Hecuba, Polyxena and Polydorus". Polymestor was also the name of a Greek king of Arcadia.
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