[1] According to Pausanias, Melia, who had been abducted by Apollo, gave birth to Tenerus and his brother Ismenus, the eponym of the Theban river.
[4] The late 6th–early 5th century BC Theban poet Pindar, called Tenerus "the temple tending seer",[5] and referred to him as "mighty Tenerus, chosen prophet of oracles", to whom Apollo entrusted the city of Thebes, "because of his wise courage", and whom Poseidon honored "above all mortals".
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".
[7] Lycophron, refers to Thebes, or perhaps more generally Boeotia, as the "land and temples of Teneros".
[8] Pausanias says that Tenerus was given "the art of divination", by his father Apollo.