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In Greek mythology, Polypoites or Polypoetes (Greek: 'Πολυποίτης') was the name of several individuals:

  1. Polypoites was a son of Hippodamia and Pirithous. A native of Gyrtone, he led the armies of Thessaly on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was among those who vied for Helen's hand in marriage, and later occupied the Trojan horse. After the war, the was present at the funerals of Kalchas and Patroklos.
  2. Polypoites was the son of Apollo and Phthia. He was killed by Aetolos.
  3. Polypoites was one of the suitors of Penelope.
  4. Polypoites was the son of Odysseus and Kallidice; after his mother's death he became king of the Thesprotians.

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The Iliad by Homer: Chapter 2 (continued) - The Literature Page (378 words)
He was son of Pirithous, who was son of Jove himself, for Hippodameia bore him to Pirithous on the day when he took his revenge on the shaggy mountain savages and drove them from Mt. Pelion to the Aithices.
But Polypoetes was not sole in command, for with him was Leonteus, of the race of Mars, who was son of Coronus, the son of Caeneus.
Guneus brought two and twenty ships from Cyphus, and he was followed by the Enienes and the valiant Peraebi, who dwelt about wintry Dodona, and held the lands round the lovely river Titaresius, which sends its waters into the Peneus.
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