Leitus
In Greek mythology, Leitus (/ˈliːɪtəs/; Ancient Greek: Λήϊτος Leϊtos) was a leader of the Boeotians and admiral of 12 ships which sailed against Troy.[1]
Family
Leitus was the son of Alector (Alectryon)[2] and Polybule[3] or of Lacritus and Cleobule.[1] He was the brother of Clonius, and probably the half-sibling of other Boeotian leaders, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor.[4]
In some accounts, Leitus was described as an earth-born and thus a son of Gaia (Earth).[5]
Mythology
Leitus also sailed with the Argonauts[6] and afterwards, as one of the suitors of Helen, fought in the Trojan War,[7] where he killed 20 enemies,[8] including Phylacus.[9]
Leitus was one of the seven
Plataeae.[13]
Notes
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.67.7
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- ^ Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 259
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.16
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.494; Apollodorus, 3.10.8; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 114
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.35
- ^ Homer, Iliad 13.90–124
- ^ Homer, Iliad 17.602–605
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.39.3
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.4.3
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.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4