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In
Greek mythology , Cretheus (;
Ancient Greek : Κρηθεύς Krētheus ) may refer to the following characters:
Cretheus, king and founder of
Iolcus , the son of King
Aeolus of
Aeolia (son of
Hellen ) by either
Enarete
[1] or
Laodice .
[2] He was the brother of
Sisyphus ,
Athamas ,
Salmoneus ,
Deion ,
Magnes ,
Perieres ,
Canace ,
Alcyone ,
Peisidice ,
Calyce and
Perimede . Cretheus's wives were
Tyro , his niece, and
Demodice or
Biadice .
[3] With Tyro, he fathered
Aeson ,
Pheres , and
Amythaon .
[4] When Cretheus found out that Tyro had an affair with Poseidon, he left her and married Demodice.
[5] He also had several daughters, namely
Hippolyte , future wife of
Acastus
[6] (otherwise known as
Astydameia
[7] ),
Myrina who married
Thoas ,
[8] and possibly
Phalanna , eponym of
Phalanna .
[9]
Cretheus, also known as
Cres , the
Cretan father of an unnamed daughter who became the mother of
Asterius by
Teutamus .
[10]
Notes
^
Hesiod ,
Ehoiai fr. 10(a);
Apollodorus ,
1.7.3
^
Scholia on
Homer ,
Odyssey
11.235
^
Hyginus ,
De Astronomica 2.20; she unsuccessfully tried to seduce
Phrixus and falsely accused him of an attempt to rape her, cf. the stories of
Phaedra and
Hippolytus ,
Stheneboea and
Bellerophon ,
Astydameia and
Peleus ,
Phthia /
Clytia and
Phoenix ,
Philonome and
Tenes ,
Ochne and
Eunostus
^ Homer, Odyssey 11.259; Apollodorus,
1.9.11 ;
Tzetzes on
Lycophron , 175
^ Hamilton, Edith (1942). Mythology . Little, Brown and Company. p. 299.
ISBN
9780316438520 .
^
Pindar , Nemean Ode 4.57
^ Apollodorus,
3.13.2
^ Scholia on
Apollonius Rhodius ,
Argonautica 1.601
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Φάλαννα
^
Diodorus Siculus , 4.60.2
References
Diodorus Siculus , The Library of History translated by
Charles Henry Oldfather . Twelve volumes.
Loeb Classical Library . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Diodorus Siculus , Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2 . Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Hesiod , Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Homer ,
The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Hyginus , Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Pindar , Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pindar , The Odes of Pindar including 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-Apollodorus , The Library with 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.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .