Agrios (son of Porthaon)

Agrios ( Greek  Ἄγριος ) is in Greek mythology the son of Porthaon , king of Pleuron and Kalydon , and of Euryte . He was the brother of Oineus , Alkathoos , Melas and Leukopeus as well as the Sterope .

Agrios had six sons, including Melanippus and Thersites , who disempowered Oineus, his father's successor in the royal dignity of Kalydon, and installed Agrios as king. These were in turn driven out by Diomedes (or his father Tydeus , son of Oineus) and murdered except for Thersites and Onchestus . Agrios, unless he had also been slain by Diomedes, was ousted and committed suicide.

The events before the Trojan War are located in the library of Apollodorus , while Hyginus describes how Diomedes, returning from the war, learned of the disempowerment of his grandfather and then hurried to reach his homeland and help his grandfather gain his rights. Also Antoninus Liberalis follows this chronology.

literature

• Georg Wentzel : Agrios 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 896 f.
• Hans von Geisau : Agrios 3rd In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 260-260.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pausanias 4, 35, 1.
2. ↑ Pausanias 6, 20, 17 and 6, 21, 10.
3. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 10.
4. ↑ Pausanias 2:25 , 2; Ovid , Heroides 9, 153.
5. ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 175.
6. ^ Antoninus Liberalis 37.