Arkeisios
Arkeisios ( ancient Greek Ἀρκείσιος , also Ἀρκέσιος ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He was the father of Laertes and the paternal grandfather of Odysseus . According to a version of the legend, his parents were Zeus and Euryodeia . He was married to Chalkomedusa .
According to other sources, he was a son of Cephalus from Thorikos and Prokris . According to another representation, he is said to have been a son of Killos or Keleos, a son of Cephalus. Aristotle, however, describes the following origins: When Cephalus asked the oracle of Delphi how he could have children, he was told that he should marry the first female he would meet. Back at home he came across a she-bear who, after getting her pregnant, turned into a woman and gave birth to Arkeisios.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Arkeisios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 553 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Richard Wagner : Arkeisios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 1161 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Homer , Odyssey 14, 182 and 16, 118; Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 16, 8; Hyginus , Fabulae 173.
- ↑ Scholion and Eustathios to Homer, Odyssey 16, 118; Ovid , Metamorphoses 13, 144.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 189.
- ↑ Eustathios to Homer's Iliad 2, 631.
- ↑ Aristotle, Politeia der Ithakesier in the Etymologicum magnum p. 144, 22; Herakleides Pontikos , fragment 38, in: Karl Müller u. a .: Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (FHG) II 223; Eustathios, Commentary on Homer 1961, 19.