Aetolus (son of Endymion)
Aetolus (/iːˈtoʊləs/; Ancient Greek: Αἰτωλός Aitolos) was, in Greek mythology, a son of Endymion, great-great-grandson of Deucalion, and a Naiad nymph (Neis), or Iphianassa.[1][2]
Family
According to
Dorus.[8] Other sources also described Aetolus as the son of Amphictyon and father of Physcius, the father of Locrus.[9] In this account, Aetolus was a king of Locris after his father Amphictyon. Then, the kingdom was passed on to Physcus and eventually Locrus who name the land after himself.[10]
Mythology
Aetolus' father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon and Epeius to decide by a contest at
Peloponnesus, he went to the country of the Curetes, between the Achelous and the Corinthian gulf, where he slew Dorus, Laodocus, and Polypoetes, the sons of Apollo and Phthia, and gave to the country the name of Aetolia.[11] This story is only a mythical account of the colonization of Aetolia.[13]
Genealogical tree
Notes
- ^ Smith, William (1870), "Aetolus (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 54, archived from the original on 2009-03-15, retrieved 2007-11-06
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.6
- ^ Pausanias, 5.1.4
- ^ Conon, Narrations 14; Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.28
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Naxos
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 155
- Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1780
- ^ Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Physkos
- ^ Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 587 ff.
- ^ a b Apollodorus, 1.7.6
- ^ Pausanias, 5.1.8; Strabo, 8.3.33
- ^ Strabo, 10.2 ff.
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aetolus (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
