Stymphalus (son of Elatus)
In
Family
Stymphalus was one of the sons of
Aepytus, Ischys and Cyllen.[2] Stymphalus' sons were Agamedes, Gortys[3] and Agelaus, the father of Phalanthus.[4] Stymphalus also had a daughter, Parthenope, the mother of Everes by Heracles.[5]
Mythology
Stymphalus was treacherously killed by Pelops, who, being unable to defeat him at war, pretended to establish friendship with him, only to approach and slay the inadvertent Stymphalus; he then chopped off his limbs and scattered them around. As punishment for Pelops' crime, the gods had Greece suffer from infertility until the pious Aeacus was asked to pray for relief of the calamity.[6]
According to a scholion on
Molionidae.[7]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.6.
- Apollodorus, 3.9.1.
- ^ Pausanias, 8.4.8
- ^ Pausanias, 8.35.9
- Apollodorus, 2.7.8.
- Apollodorus, 3.12.6.
- ^ Smith, s.v. Stympha'lides; Mnaseas apud Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, 2.1052.[verification needed]
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.
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- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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