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Opheltes
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thumb|Death of Opheltes on a Roman sarcophagus from Corinth.
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Father
- Lycurgus of Nemea
- Image
- Archemoros 119.png
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- Commons category
- Opheltes
- different from
- Opheltes
- name in native language
- Ὀφέλτης
- worshipped by
- Greek mythology
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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12 sectionsContents
- Family
- Story
- Sources
- Early
- ''Hypsipyle''
- Hyginus
- Statius' ''Thebaid''
- Apollodorus
- The Heroön of Opheltes
- Mount Opheltes
- Notes
- References
thumb|Death of Opheltes on a Roman sarcophagus from Corinth.
In Greek mythology, Opheltes (Ancient Greek: Ὀφέλτης), also called Archemorus (Αρχέμορος, Beginning of Doom), was a son of Lycurgus of Nemea. His mother is variously given as Eurydice, Nemea, or Amphithea. As an infant, he was killed by a serpent at Nemea. Funeral games were held in the boy's honor, and these were supposed to have been the origin of the Nemean Games.
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