Orchomenus (mythology)
In
) may refer to:- Orchomenus, an Lycaon[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by an unknown woman. He was the founder and eponym of Orchomenus (Arcadia), as well as founder of Methydrium.[4] One account called him father of Arcas.[5] Orchomenus and his siblings 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 king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Orchomenus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[6]
- Orchomenus, a king, the father of Elara.[7]
- Orchomenus, son of
- Orchomenus, a son of Ampycus.[15]
- Orchomenus, son of Eteocles and brother of Minyas, in a rare genealogy; essentially the same as the above.[16]
- Orchomenus, a son of Athamas and Themisto and brother of Sphincius according to Hyginus.[17]
- Orchomenus, one of the sons of Thyestes by a naiad whose flesh was served to their own father by Atreus.[18] His two brothers were Aglaus and Calaeus.[19]
Notes
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6.
- ^ Pausanias, 8.3.3.
- ^ Duris in Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.264
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.761 citing Pherecydes; Apollodorus, 1.4.1.
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions 10.21
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses
- ^ a b Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.511[verification needed]
- ^ Pausanias, 9.36.6.
- ^ Pausanias, 9.37.1.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Aspledōn
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 980
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Isthmian Ode 1.79
- Hyginus, Fabulae 1
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 5 & 812; Apollodorus, E.2.13.
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.449
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
- 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.
- Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com
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