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Theano

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Canonical name
Theano
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

2

daughter of Cisseus

Descriptive reference · Direct

priestess of Minerva

Title · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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temple of Minerva1 observation
·Direct

Theano is at the temple of Minerva, where she opens its doors.

See evidence text
When they reached the temple of Minerva, lovely Theano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors

Claims

2
·Direct

Theano raised Antenor’s bastard son Pedaeus as one of her own children for love of her husband.

See evidence text
Pedaeus, son of Antenor, who, though he was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children, for the love she bore her husband.
·Direct

Theano, Cisseus’s daughter, Antenor’s wife, and Trojan-appointed priestess, opens the temple and takes the robe in order to lay it on Minerva’s knees while praying.

See evidence text
lovely Theano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor, opened the doors, for the Trojans had made her priestess of Minerva. The women lifted up their hands to the goddess with a loud cry, and Theano took the robe to lay it upon the knees of Minerva, praying the while to the daughter of great Jove

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Direct
Theano
·Direct
Theano, daughter of Cisseus and wife of Antenor
·Remembered
father to fair Theano

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 7

Meges, moreover, slew Pedaeus, son of Antenor, who, though he was a bastard, had been brought up by Theano as one of her own children, for the love she bore her husband. The son of Phyleus got close up to him and drove a spear into the nape of his neck: it went under his tongue all among his teeth, so he bit the cold bronze, and fell dead in the dust.