Mar 9, 2025
Demophons mother is named Antiope in Pindar, Ariadne in the Odyssey scholia, and Phaedra in Apollodorus and Diodorus; in all these sources except for Pindar he shares a mother with Acamas. Putting Iope (daughter of Iphicles) in this position is thus prima facie a mythological innovation by Stesichorus
Demophon in Egypt by P. J. Finglass. Page 8
Few thoughts on this:
1) It seems no one could agree on who Demophon and Acamas mother was so they attributed them to every single one of Theseus romantic partners
2) Him being the son of Antiope is interesting since that would make him a full brother to Hippolytus
3) curious as to how the timeline worked in the Scholia to the Odyssey to where Demophon snd Acamas were the sons of Ariadne
