Phoroneus
In
and primordial king of Argos.Family
Phoroneus was the son of the
He was said to have been married to Cinna,[7] or Cerdo, a nymph,[8] or Teledice[9] (or Laodice)[10] also a nymph, or Perimede,[11] or first to Peitho and second to Europe,[12] and to have fathered a number of children including Apis, Car,[13] Chthonia, Clymenus,[14] Sparton,[15] Lyrcus[16] and Europs, an illegitimate son.[17] An unnamed daughter of his is said to have consorted with Hecaterus and thus became the mother of the five Hecaterides, nymphs of the rustic dance.[18]
In Argive culture,
The
Relation | Names | Sources | ||||||||||
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Hellanicus | Scholia on Pindar | Scholia on Euripides | Parthenius | Strabo | Apollodorus | Pausanias | Hyginus | Clement | Tzetzes | |||
Parents | Inachus | ✓ | ||||||||||
Inachus and Melia | ✓ | |||||||||||
Inachus and Argia | ✓ | |||||||||||
Wife | Perimede | ✓ | ||||||||||
Peitho | ✓ | |||||||||||
Europa | ✓ | |||||||||||
Teledice | ✓ | |||||||||||
Cerdo | ✓ | |||||||||||
Cinna | ✓ | |||||||||||
Laodice | ✓ | |||||||||||
Children | Agenor | ✓ | ||||||||||
Jasus | ✓ | |||||||||||
Pelasgus | ✓ | |||||||||||
Aegialeus | ✓ | |||||||||||
Apis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Niobe or Nioba | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Lyrcus | ✓ | |||||||||||
wife of Hecaterus | ✓ | |||||||||||
Car | ✓ | |||||||||||
Europs | ✓ | |||||||||||
Chthonia | ✓ | |||||||||||
Clymenus | ✓ | |||||||||||
Sparton | ✓ | |||||||||||
Phthia | ✓ |
Reign
Hyginus' genealogy expresses the position of Phoroneus as one
Phoroneus' successor was
PHORONEUS' CHRONOLOGY OF REIGN ACCORDING TO VARIOUS SOURCES | |||||||||||
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Kings of Argos | Regnal Years | Castor | Regnal Years | Syncellus | Regnal Years | Apollodorus | Hyginus | Tatian | Pausanias | ||
Precessor | 1677 | 50 winters & summers | Inachus | 1677.5 | 56 winters & summers | Inachus | 1675 | Inachus | -do- | -do- | -do- |
Phoroneus | 1652 | 60 winters & summers | Phoroneus | 1649.5 | 60 winters & summers | Phoroneus | 1650 | Phoroneus | -do- | -do- | -do- |
Successor | 1622 | 35 winters & summers | Apis | 1619.5 | 35 winters & summers | Apis | 1625 | Apis | -do- | -do- | -do- |
Argive genealogy
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Notes
- ISBN 978-0143106715.
- ^ Pausanias II, 19, 5.
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, protrepticus p. 233
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.1
- Hyginus, Fabulae 143
- ^ The Argive myth was reported to Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.15.5
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.21.1.
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.1
- Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 177
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 3.28
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 932
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.39.5.
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.35.4.
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.16.4.
- ^ Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 1
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.34.4.
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 10.3.19
- ^ Hellanicus of Lesbos, Fragm. p. 47, ed. Sturz.
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agenor (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 68, archived from the original on 2013-10-12, retrieved 2008-05-17
- Recognitions10.21
- ^ In the Argolid, of course, he displaced Prometheus as the primordial fire-giver and the originator of kingship (Yves Bonnefoy and Wendy Doniger, eds. Greek and Egyptian Mythologies, "Myths of Argos and Athens" [University of Chicago 1992:124]).
- Epimetheus, and, in Boeotia, Alkomeneus.
- ^ Karl Kerenyi, The Gods of the Greeks 1951 (1980), p. 222.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 143. Compare Prometheus.
- ^ James Cowles Prichard : An Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology. 1819. p. 85
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.20.3.
- ^ Protrepticus
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