Locrus
InGreek mythology,the nameLocrusorLokros(/ˈlɒkrəs/;Ancient Greek:Λοκρός) may refer to:
- Locrus, the king ofLocrisand son of his predecessor KingPhyscius.He was the grandson ofAmphictyon,son ofDeucalion.[1]Locrus became byCabyathe father ofOpus,the mythical ancestor of theOzolian Locrians.[2]According to some, his wife was calledCambyse[3]orProtogeneia.[4]Locrus named theLelegiansLocrians after himself.[1]
- Locrus, son ofZeusandMaera,the daughter ofProetusofCorinth.He is said to have assistedZethusandAmphionin the building ofThebes.[5]In some accounts, his mother was calledMegaclite,daughter ofMacareusand had a sisterThebewho married Zethus.[6]
- Locrus, son ofPhaeaxand brother ofAlcinouswho emigrated to Italy where he marriedLaurina,the daughter ofLatinus.Heraklesat about that time was drivingGeryon'sbeautiful cows fromErytheia.He arrived and was hosted kindly by Lokros. Latinus came to visit his daughter, saw and fancied the cows and drove them away. Discovering this, Herakles shot with his bow and killed him, and brought back the cows. Lokros, fearing Herakles might suffer something terrible at the hands of Latinus, who was strong in body and spirit, had hastened to the aid of his guest, having put on military gear. Herakles seeing him running and thinking he was someone rushing to support Latinus, loosed a shaft and killed him. After he learned he mourned loudly and conducted the rites for him. And when he had passed from among men he appeared to the people as a ghost and ordered them to establish a city by the tomb of Lokros. And the city keeps the name in honor of Lokros.[7]
- Locrus, also aParianstatuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned byPausanias.
Notes
[edit]- ^abPseudo-Scymnus,Circuit of the Earth587 ff.
- ^Plutarch,Quaestiones Graecae15
- ^EustathiusonHomer,p. 277
- ^Pindar,Olympian Ode9.86
- ^Eustathius ad Homer, p. 1688[verification needed]
- ^Pseudo-Clement,Recognitions10.21
- ^Conon,3
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.
- Conon,Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinopletranslated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,Moraliawith an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Pindar,Odestranslated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar,The Odes of Pindarincluding the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Clement,RecognitionsfromAnte-NiceneLibrary Volume 8,translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867.Online version at theio
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