Athletes

Athletes (the handwriting offers Atlites , ancient Greek Ἀτλίτης Atlítes ) is in Greek mythology one of the 50 sons of Aigyptus , the twin brother of Danaos , and is therefore one of the Aegyptiads .

According to the traditional bad, incomplete list of 47 of 50 Danaidenpaarungen in the Fabulae of Hyginus Mythographus he was by his wife Europome killed on their wedding night.

literature

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Atlites . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 711 ( digitized version ).
Konrad Wernicke : Atlites . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2133.

Remarks

↑ Herbert Jennings Rose (ed.): Hygini fabulae. 3rd, unchanged edition. Sijthoff, Leiden 1967, and Peter Kenneth Marshall (Ed.): Hygini fabulae . 2nd Edition. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002, and Jean-Yves Boriaud (Ed.): Hygin: Fables. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1997, read on the spot Athletes.
^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.

[1] Herbert Jennings Rose (ed.): Hygini fabulae. 3rd, unchanged edition. Sijthoff, Leiden 1967, and Peter Kenneth Marshall (Ed.): Hygini fabulae . 2nd Edition. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002, and Jean-Yves Boriaud (Ed.): Hygin: Fables. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1997, read on the spot Athletes.

[2] Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.