Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Tenes was the eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos. He was the son either of Apollo or of King Cycnus of Colonae by Proclia daughter or granddaughter of Laomedon. Cycnus’s second wife Philonome daughter of Tragasus or Cragasus falsely accused Tenes of rape bringing in a flutist named Eumolpus as witness. Cycnus believed the accusations and tried to kill Tenes and his sister Hemithea by placing them both in a chest which was set into the ocean.