Thersander
In
Homer's
Iliad,
Thersander was one of the
Epigoni, who attacked the city of
Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the
Seven Against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing. He was the son of
Polynices and
Argeia.
Thersander may have bribed
Eriphyle with the robe of
Harmonia so that she sent her son,
Alcmaeon, to fight with him. His father did the same with Harmonia's necklace to convince her to send her husband with the original attackers. The attack of the Epigoni was successful, and Thersander became the king of Thebes.
[Apollodorus. Library. 3.7.2]Thersander intended to for the Greeks during the
Trojan War, but was killed by
Telephus before the war began, while the Greeks had mistakenly stopped in
Mysia. He was succeeded by his son
Tisamenus, whose mother was
Demonassa.
[Pausanius. Description of Greece. 9.36.1]
