Atrax (Lapith)
Atrax ( ancient Greek Ἄτραξ Atrax ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
According to Stephanos of Byzantium , he is the son of the river god Peneios and Bura , the daughter of Ion with the Helike . He is the eponymous hero of the Thessalian city of Atrax . Antoninus Liberalis , who refers to Nicandros from Colophon , names him as the father of Lapith Kaineus , who was originally born as a girl named Kainis . He is probably also the father of the lapithin Hippodameia , the wife of Peirithoos , because Ovid calls her Atrakis.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Atrax 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 711 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Tümpel : Atrax 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2137 f.