380:, in a passage that quotes from otherwise unknown fragments of Pindar, says that Tenerus was "a prophet of the oracle on the Ptoüs Mountain", Schachter 1981, p. 59, says that Tenerus' "presence at the Ptoion may be due solely to Pindar", while Schachter 1967, p. 4, further explains that Pindar's associating Tenerus with the Ptoion "may be a poetic way of asserting the fact of Theban control over the Ptoion, by making the legendary prophet of the Ismenion the prophet of the other oracle." See also Hornblower,
388:: "It has been thought, partly from location of the eponymous plain, that Teneros must have been somehow connected with the Ptoiuon. Strabo evidently thought so, 9. 2. 34, and cf. Schacter 1981-94: 1. 59, 3. 40, and many other scholars); but I. Rutherford 2001: 343-4 has challenged this, and is right to insist that hard linking evidence is in short supply. Actually the plain is much closer to Thebes than to the Ptoion (
82:, was perhaps addressed to Tenerus. Its first line has the singer sing: "(I come to?) the giver of divine oracles" and in line thirteen "we speak of the hero Tenerus", with mentions in the immediately succeeding lines of "bulls", "before the altar", "they sang a song", and "oracle".
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86:, refers to Thebes, or perhaps more generally Boeotia, as the "land and temples of Teneros". Pausanias says that Tenerus was given "the art of divination", by his father Apollo. Tenerus was also perhaps connected with the
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