Polymnestor (or Polymestor) was king of the Bistones (a Thracian people). He murdered Polydorus, Priam's son, to whose eldest sister, Ilione, he was married. His name could mean 'many suitors' or 'mindful of many things', from polys, 'many' and mnester, 'suitor' or 'mindful'. 'Many suitors' hardly seems appropriate, so 'mindful of many things' is the better sense for him. No doubt one of the things of which he was all too mindful was that he could win a vast sum of money and the hand of Agamemnon's daughter Electra if he murdered Polydorus ...
