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by Micha F. Lindemans

The son of Cycnus (2). He was falsly accused by his stepmother and his father, believing her lies, locked his son in a chest and had it thrown into the sea. The chest washed ashore at Tenedos where Tenes became king. The islanders worshipped him as a hero.