Megareus of Onchestus
In Greek mythology, Megareus (Ancient Greek: Μεγαρέας) or Megarus (Μεγαρέως) was king of Onchestus in Boeotia. In some myths, he was the eponymous king of Megara.[1]
Family
Megareus was either son of Poseidon and Oenope, daughter of Epopeus,[2] or of Onchestus (eponym of their kingdom),[3] or of Apollo or of Aegeus,[4] or of Hippomenes.[5]
Mythology
Megareus came with his army to the assistance of
Dioscuri in the campaign against him.[10]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, 1.39.6 & 1.41.5; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 500 ff.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 157
- ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 16; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 500 ff.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Megara
- ^ a b Apollodorus, 3.15.8
- ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 16
- ^ Pausanias, 1.39.5
- ^ Pausanias, 1.39.6 & 1.41.5
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 185
- ^ Pausanias, 1.41.3
References
- 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.
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
- Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
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