Boiotos (son of Itonus)

Boiotos ( Greek Βοιωτός Boiōtós ), son of Itonos and Melanippe , is a figure in Greek mythology .

He was a grandson of the Amphictyon and namesake of the Boiotier people .

In another version of the legend, Melanippe gave birth to Poseidon, the twins Boiotos and Aiolos .

swell

• Pausanias , Description of Greece 9, 1, 1
• Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika , s. Boiotia

literature

• Karl Tümpel : Boiotos 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 665.
• August Schultz : Boiotos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 789 ( digitized version ).