Arestor
InGreek mythology,Arestor(Ancient Greek:Ἀρέστωρ,gen.: Ἀρέστορος) may refer to two distinct characters:
- Arestor, anArgiveprince as the son ofPhorbas[1](possibly byEuboea[2]) orIasus[3]orEcbasus.[4]According toPausanias,[5]he was the husband ofMycene,the daughter ofInachus,from whom the city ofMycenaederived its name. Possibly by this woman, Arestor was the father ofArgus Panopteswho was called thereforeArestorides.[6]Pelasgus,father ofLycaonofArcadia,was also called the son of Arestor.[7][8]
- Arestor, father of anotherArgus,the builder ofArgo.[9]
Notes
[edit]- ^ScholiaonEuripides,Phoenician Women1116
- ^Scholia ad Euripides,Orestes920
- ^Scholion on Euripides,Orestes1646
- ^Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Parrasia
- ^Pausanias,2.16.4
- ^Apollodorus,2.1.3,Ovid,Metamorphoses1.624.; scholia on Euripides,Phoenician Women1116
- ^Scholion on Euripides,Orestes1646; Stephanus, s.v.Parrasia
- ^Fowler, Robert L.(2013).Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary.Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 107.ISBN978-0-19-814741-1.
- ^Apollonius of Rhodes,1.112;TzetzesonLycophron,883
References
[edit]- Apollodorus,The Librarywith 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.
- Apollonius Rhodius,Argonauticatranslated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica.George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Fowler, Robert L.,Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary.Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013.ISBN978-0-19-814741-1
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith 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.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphosestranslated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses.Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain:Schmitz, Leonhard(1870)."Arestor".InSmith, William(ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.Vol. 1. p. 277.
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