Antagoras (son of Eurypylos)
Antagoras ( Greek Ἀνταγόρας ) is in Greek mythology the son of Eurypylos and Clytia and brother of Chalcon .
When Heracles was stranded on the island of Kos on the way home from Ilion , he demanded a ram from the inhabitants. The gigantic shepherd Antagoras refused the voluntary surrender ( ἀνταγορεύω = contradict ) and challenged the hero to a wrestling match for the price of the animal. The other Meroper stood by Antagoras and brought the entourage of the stranded in such distress that Heracles fled to a Thracian woman and hid under her robe. This is how the Koi custom is said to have originated that suitors "advertise in womanly costume".
literature
- Karl Tümpel : Antagoras . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 2863 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Antagoras 1) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2337.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scholion to Theocritus 7: 5.
- ↑ Plutarch , Quaestiones Graecae 58.