Alabandos
Alabandos ( ancient Greek Ἀλάβανδος ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is the eponymous hero of the Carian city of Alabanda . According to a fragment of Apollonios of Letopolis at Stephanos of Byzantium , he is a son of Kar , son of the river god Phoroneus and first king of Megara , and of Kallirrhoë , a daughter of the river god Maiandros . According to Stephanos, the Carian expression ἄλα corresponds to the ancient Greek ἵππος ("horse") and βάνδα to the ancient Greek νίκη ("victory"), which is why the city of Kar is said to have been named after his son's victorious chariot race .
Elsewhere in Stephanos Alabandos is a son of the Lycian Euippos , who is slain in the Iliad by Patroklos , the eponymous hero of the demos Euippe who probably belongs to Alabanda . Cicero cites Alabandos as an example of the deification of heroes after such a hero cult of Alabandos is said to have existed in Alabanda .
literature
- Julius Adolf Bernhard : Alabandos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 221 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Alabandos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1271.
Remarks
- ↑ Apollonios von Letopolis, fragment 9 in: Johannes Geffken : De Stephano Byzantio . Goettingen 1886.
- ↑ Homer Iliad 16:417.
- ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium sv Εὔιππος .
- ↑ Cicero, De natura deorum 3, 39.