Munichus
InGreek mythology,Munichus(/ˈmjuːnɪkəs/;Ancient Greek:ΜούνιχοςMoúnikhos) may refer to:
- Munichus, son ofDryas,king of theMolossiansand a seer. He was husband ofLelanteand by her father of three sons,Philaeus,AlcanderandMegaletor,and of a daughterHyperippe.Of them Alcander excelled his father in prophetic abilities. The family were just and righteous and therefore especially favored by the gods. One day, raiders attacked them in the fields; the family ran off to their house and began to throw various objects at them in self-defense, whereupon the offenders set fire to the house.Zeuswould not let his favorites die such a miserable death and changed them all into birds: Munichus into abuzzard,Lelante into a green woodpecker, Alcander into awren,Hyperippe into aloon,Megaletor into an "ichneumon" and Philaeus into a "dog-bird".[1]
- Munichus or Munychus, son ofPanteuclesorPantaclesand a king ofAthens.He was believed to have been theeponymof the Munichian harbor inAthensand founder of the temple ofArtemisMunychia inPeiraeuswhich he had seized.[2]It was also related that whenOrchomenuswas invaded by theThracians,the inhabitants of Orchomenus fled to Munichos who welcomed them, and subsequently named the place where he let them dwell Munichia after the hospitable king.[3]He also appeared in a vase painting alongside other allies ofTheseusagainst theAmazons.[4]Ahero cultof him existed, as is evident from an inscription found in Peiraeus that reads: "[name missing], son ofEpicharmus,has offered to Munichus ".[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^Ovid,Metamorphoses13.717;Antoninus Liberalis,14
- ^Euripides,Hippolytus761 withscholia;Photius,Lexicons.v.Mounichia;Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Mounichia;Etymologicum Magnum589.48
- ^ScholiaonDemosthenes,18 (On the Crown), 107b
- ^Roscher, s. 3229
- ^Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum2.1541 b
References[edit]
- Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalistranslated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Euripides,Hippolytuswith an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1994.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft,Band XVI, Halbband 31, Molatzes-Myssi (1933), s. 570
- 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.
- Suida,Suda Encyclopediatranslated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher(ed.):Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie.Band 2. 2 (L-M), Leipzig, 1894–1897. - ss. 3228-3229
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