POLYDECTES, IWO-dee-Ms, son of Magnes, was king of Seriphos, and received Danae (q. v.) and her babe Perseus when brought to him by the fisherman Dictys. From his treat ment of Danae, Polydectes was, with his com panions, afterwards changed into stone by Perseus (q.v.) with Medusa's head.
(see POLLUX, r). PoLvooaus,g5314-docrus. s. King of Sparta, son of Alcamanes, ended the Messenian war, and caused the colonizing of Crotona and Locri. He was murdered 724 B.C. 2. Son of Cadmus and Herniione, married Nycteis, who bore him Labdacus, the father of LaTus. 3. Son of Priam and Hecuba, or LaotoU (daughter of King Altes, of Pedasus), was killed by Achil les; but, according to others, he was sent, before the fall of Troy, by Priam with a sum of money to the Thracian Chersonese, to the court of King Polymnestor, who murdered him for the sake of the money, and threw his body into the sea. It was found on the coast by Hecuba, who killed Polymnestor's children and put out his eyes. According to Virgil, the body of Polydorus was buried near the shore by his assassin ; and there grew on the grave a myrtle, whose boughs dropped blood when /Eneas, voyaging to Italy, attempted to tear them from the tree. According to others,
Polydorus was, when a child, intrusted to his sister Diane, Polymnestor's wife ; and she sub stituted him for her own son DeiphIlus. Po lymnestor killed his own son Deiphilus, whom he believed to be Polydorus ; and Polydorus then himself blinded, or caused Iliona to blind, Polymnestor. 4. Son of Hippomadon, accom panied the Epigdni against 'Thebes. POLYGNOTUS, 23J1-y-gla-tles, a celebrated painter of Thasos, and afterwards of Athens, 430 B.C.
POLYHYMNIA, 1331-35-hya-tir-a, one of the Muses, presided over hymns, singing, and rhe toric. She was represented veiled, in a pensive attitude, and sometimes crowned, and with a sceptre in her left, and her right raised as if ready to harangue.
Pocytuus, fiell.e.dus (see GLAUCUS, POLYMNESTOR, pi-yin-nee-tor (see POLY DORUS, 3).
POLYMNIA, 1351-yin'-nt-ez (see IA). POLYNICES, fiol-jLtee-cis (see ETEOCLES). POLYPEMON, .01-0-fiCtnein (see PROCRUS TES).