Broteas (pugilist)
Broteas ( Greek Βροτέας ) is a pugilist in Greek mythology .
He appears only in Ovid's Metamorphoses as a guest at the wedding of Perseus and Andromeda . Like his twin brother Ammon , he is undefeated as a pugilist, but is slain by Phineus with the sword when he reclaims his fiancée Andromeda from Perseus.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Broteas 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 830 ( digitized ).
- Richard Wagner : Broteas 3) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 898.
Web links
- Broteas in the Greek Myth Index
Individual evidence
- ^ Ovid Metamorphosen 5, 107 ff.