{"id":14270,"date":"2019-07-01T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=14270"},"modified":"2019-06-16T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T02:18:45","slug":"sylum-inspiration-oenone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-oenone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Inspiration: Oenone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sanguen: Spy Liaison<\/h2>\n

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Oenone<\/a> was a mountain\u00a0nymph\u00a0(an\u00a0oread) on\u00a0Mount Ida\u00a0in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess\u00a0Cybele, alternatively\u00a0Rhea. Her gift of prophecy was learned from Rhea.<\/sup>\u00a0Her father was either the river-gods,\u00a0Cebren<\/sup><\/sup>\u00a0or Oeneus<\/sup>. Her very name links her to the gift of wine.<\/p>\n

Paris, son of the king\u00a0Priam\u00a0and the queen\u00a0Hecuba, fell in love with Oenone when he was a shepherd on the slopes of\u00a0Mount Ida, having been\u00a0exposed in infancy\u00a0(owing to a prophecy that he would be the means of the destruction of the city of Troy) but rescued by the herdsman\u00a0Agelaus. The couple married, and Oenone gave birth to a son,\u00a0Corythus.<\/p>\n

When Paris later abandoned her to return to Troy and sail across the Aegean to kidnap Helen, the queen of Sparta, Oenone predicted the\u00a0Trojan War. Out of revenge for Paris\u2019 betrayal, she sent Corythus to guide the Greeks to Troy. Another version has it that she used her son to drive a rift between Paris and Helen, but Paris, not recognizing his own son, killed him.<\/p>\n

The only extensive surviving narration of Oenone and Paris is\u00a0Quintus Smyrnaeus,\u00a0Posthomerica<\/i>, book X.259-489, which tells the return of wounded Paris to Oenone. \u00a0Mortally wounded by\u00a0Philoctetes\u2019 arrow, he begged Oenone to heal him with her herbal arts,\u00a0<\/sup>but she refused and cast him out with scorn, to return to Helen\u2019s bed, and Paris died on the lower slopes of Ida. Then, overcome with remorse, Oenone, the one whole-hearted mourner of Paris, threw herself onto his burning funeral pyre, which the shepherds had raised. A fragment of\u00a0Bacchylides\u00a0suggests that she threw herself off a cliff,<\/sup>\u00a0in\u00a0Bibliotheke<\/i>\u00a0it is noted \u201cwhen she found him dead she hanged herself,\u201d and Lycophron imagined her hurtling head first from the towering walls of Troy. Her tragic story makes one of the\u00a0Love Romances<\/i>\u00a0of\u00a0Parthenius of Nicaea.<\/sup><\/p>\n

For more information contact the\u00a0Vampire Council Library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanguen: Spy Liaison   Oenone was a mountain\u00a0nymph\u00a0(an\u00a0oread) on\u00a0Mount Ida\u00a0in Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess\u00a0Cybele, alternatively\u00a0Rhea. Her gift of prophecy was learned from Rhea.\u00a0Her father was either the river-gods,\u00a0Cebren\u00a0or Oeneus. Her very name links her to the gift of wine. Paris, son of the king\u00a0Priam\u00a0and the queen\u00a0Hecuba, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[454,466],"tags":[447,239],"class_list":["post-14270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-introduction","category-vampire-council","tag-inspiration-block","tag-the-vampire-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-3Ia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14090,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-inspiration-paris\/","url_meta":{"origin":14270,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Inspiration: Paris","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"June 17, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Council: Spy Liaison (Note: There has been some adjustments made to the Troy\/Greek characters due to Bob being an asshole ... so make sure to look back over a few of them just in case) Paris was a child of Priam and Hecuba. 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