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In
Greek mythology , Linus (
Ancient Greek : Λῖνος Linos "flax") may refer to the following personages:
Male
Linus, an
Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King
Lycaon , either by the
naiad
Cyllene ,
[1]
Nonacris , or
Pausanias . These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into Zeus' meal, whereupon the enraged god threw the meal over the table. Linus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt cast by Zeus.
[2]
Apollodorus ,
[3]
Linus , the great musician son of
Apollo .
[4]
Linus , son of Apollo and
Psamathe .
[5]
Linus, a soldier in the army of the
Seven against Thebes . He was killed by
Hypseus at Thebes.
[6]
Female
Notes
References
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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Dionysus of Halicarnassus , Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950.
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt , Vol I-IV . . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae 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.
Graves, Robert , The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017.
ISBN
978-0-241-98338-6 ,
024198338X
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.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Papinius Statius , The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II . John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Smith, William ;
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , London (1873).
Linus This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1870).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .