Boiotus (son of Poseidon)

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Boiotos ( ancient Greek Βοιωτός Boiōtós ), son of Poseidon and twin brother of Aiolos , is a figure in Greek mythology .

Besides Arne , Antiope and Melanippe are also named as his mother ; all of them are daughters of the progenitor Aiolos .

According to one legend, Arne was sent to Metapontia with her angry father, where she gave birth to the twins. Arne's travel companion adopted the children. Boiotos and his brother Aiolos (named after his grandfather) became kings of the country. After an argument between Arne and the wife of the adoptive father, the sons killed their stepmother and had to flee. Boiotos was accepted into Aiolis by his grandfather and received a kingdom there.

In the other version, Melanippe hid the twins in the dung in front of the cattle shed for fear of her father; or they were thrown from wild animals but fed on a cow and found and raised by shepherds. Theano, the childless wife of King Metapontus of Ikaria, passed them off as her own. The king took the twins to his heart. When Theano did give birth to her own children, she wanted Boiotos and his brother to perish while hunting during an Artemis festival . Poseidon saved the sons and asked them to free their mother Melanippe, who had been held captive and blinded by grandfather. The twins killed Aiolus and revealed his wife's deceit to Metapontus, whereupon the king adopted the brothers. Boiotos later founded Boiotien . (With regard to this last point, however, there is an overlap with Boiotos , the son of Itonos .)

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