Cleitor (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Cleitor or Clitor (Ancient Greek: Κλείτωρ) or Kleitor (Κλήτωρ) may refer to the following personages:
- Cleitor, an Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[1] or by Nonacris.[2] He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Cleitor was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[3]
- Cleitor, Cletor or Cleitos, the father of Eurymedousa, mother of Myrmidon by Zeus.[4]
- Cleitor, in his time, the most powerful of the kings in Arcadia. He was the son of King
Notes
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 2. p.41 (p. 34)
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.4 & 8.21.3
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.5.
References
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- Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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