Opheltes (mythology)
InGreek mythology,Opheltes(Ancient Greek:Ὀφέλτης) may refer to several figures inGreek mythology,including:
- Opheltes,the infant son of Lycurgus ofNemea,killed by a serpent.[1]
- Opheltes, one of theTyrrhenianpirates who attempted to deceive and kidnapDionysus,and were changed by the god into fish or dolphins.[2]
- Opheltes, the son ofPeneleos,who died in theTrojan War.He was the father ofDamasichthon,a king ofThebes.[3]
- Opheltes, an experiencedTrojanwarrior. He was the father ofEuryaluswho accompaniedAeneasto Italy.[4]
- Opheltes, aDolioniankilled byTelamonin the battle between the Dolionians and theArgonauts.[5]
- Opheltes, son of Arestor, a soldier in the army of Dionysus during the Indian campaign, killed byDeriades.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 1; Smith,s.v. Opheltes 1
- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 3; Smith,s.v. Opheltes 2;Ovid,3.580–691;Hyginus,Fabulae134
- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 2; Smith,s.v. Opheltes 3;Pausanias,9.5.16
- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 4;Virgil,Aeneid9.197–204
- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 6;Valerius Flaccus,3.198–200
- ^Parada, s.v. Opheltes 5;Nonnus,32.185–186,35.379–380,37.81–85&37.91–102
References
[edit]- Hyginus, Gaius Julius,FabulaeinApollodorus'Libraryand Hyginus'Fabulae:Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma,Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.
- Nonnus,Dionysiaca;translated byRouse, W H D,II Books XVI–XXXV.Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 345, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940.Internet Archive.
- Nonnus,Dionysiaca;translated byRouse, W H D,III Books XXXVI–XLVIII.Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 346, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940.Internet Archive.
- Ovid,Metamorphoses,Brookes More, Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Parada, Carlos,Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology,Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993.ISBN978-91-7081-062-6.
- Pausanias,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, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William,Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology,London (1873).Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Valerius Flaccus, Gaius,Argonautica,translated by J. H. Mozley,Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 286. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.Online version at Harvard University Press.
- Virgil,Aeneid[books 7–12], inAeneid: Books 7-12. Appendix Vergiliana,translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold,Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 64, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press,2000.Online version at Harvard University Press.ISBN978-0-674-99586-4.
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