This Asphodicus killed
Parthenopaeus the son of Talaus in the battle against the Argives, as the Thebans say; though that part of the "Thebais" which tells of the death of
Parthenopaeus says that it was Periclymenus who killed him.
Parthenopaeus has his long hair tugged by his rival Idas in the footrace.
Parthenopaeus, whose aristeia occupies 9.570-907, provides another prominent example of a young man who dies before his time.
We may randomly include here the Hermaphroditus itself; Giovanni Pontano's
Parthenopaeus, sive Amores, and the Hendecasyllabi; and Pacifico Massimo's Elegiae iocosae.
Their son was
Parthenopaeus, who later was one of the Seven against Thebes after the death of King Oedipus.
Their force was led by seven champions: Adrastus; his brother - in - law, the seer Amphiaraus, who foresaw that only Adrastus would survive the war; Adrastus ' son - in - law Tydeus, a hero from Calydon;
Parthenopaeus; Hippomedon; Capaneus; and Polynices (though some accounts add the Argives Mecisteus and Eteoclus in place of the foreign leaders, Polynices and Tydeus).