Bukolus (son of Colonus)
Bukolos ( ancient Greek Βουκόλος ) is a person of Greek mythology .
He is a son of Colonos from Tanagra and brother of Ochemos , Leon and Ochna . His sister Ochna tries to seduce the beautiful youth Eunostus . When she fails to do this, she accuses Eunostus of having done violence to her brothers, whereupon they kill Eunostus. Elieus , Eunostus' father, has the brothers captured. After Ochna confessed the truth and threw herself off a rock in remorse, they are set free again.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Bukolos 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 832 ( digitized version ).
- Richard Wagner : Bukolos 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1017.