Car or Kar (
Ancient Greek: Κάρ) is a name in
Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.[1]
Car, king of
Megara and son of
Phoroneus by
Cerdo.[2] His tomb was located on the road from Megara to
Corinth.[3] From Car, the
acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria[4] where the 'Chamber of
Demeter' was said to have been built by him when he was the king of the land.[5]
^Smith, p. 607. CAR (Καρ), a son of
Phoroneus, and king of
Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name
Caria. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, 40. § 5). His tomb was shown as late as the time of
Pausanias, on the road from Megara to
Corinth, (i. 44. § 9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of
Lydus and
Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the
Carians, is mentioned by
Herodotus, (i. 171.) [L. S.]
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, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
Online version 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.
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