Clitonymus

Attested in episodic accounts of Patroclus's youth, Clitonymus is presented as the son of Amphidamas in several sources and as the young man whom Patroclus killed. The killing is most commonly reported to have occurred in Opus and to have led Patroclus and his father to seek refuge in the household of Peleus, where Patroclus remained for a time and became Peleus's favored companion (sources cited variously in lexica, event lists, and narrative paraphrase). Some late or fragmentary attestations preserve variant names and circumstances (e.g., Aeanes as an alternative name; a fragmentary tradition describing a crowd throwing Clitonymus into a river after an attempted political killing), indicating multiple transmission strands in the tradition.

No physical description of Clitonymus is supplied in the provided sources. He is consistently referred to as a named youth or young man (often identified as the son of Amphidamas) involved in a fatal quarrel; beyond these demographic markers, the texts give no corporeal details.

No supernatural powers or postmortem agency are attributed to Clitonymus in the supplied material. All attestations treat him as a mortal figure whose chief narrative role is as victim: most sources report that Patroclus killed him during a quarrel over a dice game, an act that precipitated exile and the seeking of asylum. A fragmentary variant describes mob violence in which a hostile crowd throws Clitonymus into a river after an attempted assassination of a tyrant, but this account differs from the dice‑game tradition and is fragmentary and uncorroborated.