In Greek mythology, Tenes was the eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos. He was the son either of Apollo or of King Cycnus of Colonae by Proclia, daughter or granddaughter of Laomedon. Cycnus' second wife falsely accused Tenes of rape, and Cycnus tried to kill Tenes and his sister Hemithea by placing them both in a chest, which was set into the ocean. However, the chest landed at Tenedos and the two survived. Cycnus later learned the truth and tried to reconcile with his children, but Tenes rejected his overture; when Cycnus' ship landed at Tenedos, Tenes took an axe and cut the moorings.
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KYKNOS (or Cycnus) and his son TENNES (or Tenes) were the first Trojan champions to oppose the Greeks at Troy. Kyknos, king of Trojan Kolonai, was a son of the god Poseidon. At birth he was abandoned by his mother on the sea-shore, where he was nurtured by gulls until some passing fishermen found him and raised him as their own. Kyknos married Prokleia, a daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, who bore him Tennes and Hemithea. Some, however, say that the twins were sired by the god Apollon. After the death of his first wife, Kyknos married a woman named Philonome who fell madly in love with her step-son Tennes. When he refused her advances, she complained to her husband that he had committed a like offence, and the king in his rage set the boy and his sister adrift at sea in a chest. They came ashore on the nearby island of Leukophrys which Tennes renamed Tenedos after himself.
When the Greek fleet led by Agamemnon set out for Troy, they landed first on the island of Tenedos. Thetis sent a message to Akhilleus, warning him not to slay Tennes, for this would arouse Apollon against him. However, the messenger was lax in his duty and the warning delivered too late, for Akhilleus having seduced Tennes' sister Hemithea, entered a brawl with the king and killed him. The twins were afterwards elevated to godhood and worshipped as the chief divinities of the island. The islanders identified Hemithea with Leukothea, mother of the sea-god Palaimon. In historical times the Tenedians sacrificed infants to this god--a rare example of institutionalised human sacrifice in ancient Greece.
After the events of Tenedos the Greeks landed at Troy, where Kyknos and Hektor stood as champions of the Trojan defence. Poseidon had made his son Kyknos invulnerable to weapons, but after a heated battle, Akhilleus managed to slay him, either with the cast of a millstone or by strangling him with the thong of his helmet. He was then transformed by the god into a swan (kyknos in Greek).
There were several others heroes named Kyknos in Greek mythology all associated with the swan, including a son of Ares who fought Herakles in Phthiotis, and a friend of Phaethon from Ligouria.
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Traditional economical activities are fishing and wine production. Most of the cultivated lands are covered with vineyards. Grape harvest festivities are held on 26-27 July.
Tourism was an important activity since 1970's but it developed rapidly from 1990's onwards. Long and fine beaches and the historical town of the island attract Turkish and foreign tourists. Residents hire parts of their houses as pensions. There also are small hotels.
Red poppies of the island are used to produce small quantities of sharbat and jam.
In year 2000, a wind farm of 17 turbines was erected at the western cape. It produces 10.2 MW energy, much more than the need of island. Excess power is transferred to mainland Anatolia
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