Phrastor
InGreek mythology,the namePhrastor[pronunciation?](Ancient Greek:Φράστωρ) may refer to:
- Phrastor, son ofPelasgusandMenippe,daughter ofPeneus.He was the father ofAmyntor,grandfather ofTeutamides,and great-grandfather ofNanas.[1]
- Phrastor, in a rare version of the myth, son ofOedipusandJocastaand brother ofLaonytus.The brothers fought againstErginusofOrchomenusand fell in the battle.[2]
- Phrastor, victor of javelin throw during the first Olympic games established by Heracles.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Roman Antiquities1.28.3(citingHellanicus,Phoronis) =Hellanicusfr. 4 Fowler, pp. 156–176.
- ^PherecydesinscholiaonEuripides,Phoenician Women53
- ^Pindar,Olympic Odes10.71
References
[edit]- Dionysius of Halicarnassus.Roman Antiquities, Volume I: Books 1-2.Translated by Earnest Cary.Loeb Classical LibraryNo. 319. Cambridge, Massachusetts:Harvard University Press,1937.Online version by Bill Thayer.Online version at Harvard University Press.
- Fowler, R. L. (2000),Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction,Oxford University Press, 2000.ISBN978-0198147404.
- Pindar,Odes,Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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