Butes (son of Boreas)
Butes ( Greek Βούτης ), the son of Boreas, was a Thracian . When there was a dispute with his stepbrother Lycurgus, his father asked him to leave the country. Therefore, he and his followers settled the island of Strongyle, today's Naxos . Since his following consisted only of men, they tried to kidnap women on raids. Finally they came to Thessaly . There they robbed women who were celebrating a festival for the god Dionysus . Butes chose Koronis , but she pleaded with Dionysus for assistance. The god struck evil with madness and the latter threw himself into a well.
literature
- Richard Engelmann : Butes 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 837 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Konrad Wernicke : Butes 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity . Volume III, 1 (1897), Col. 1082
swell
- ^ Diodorus Siculus , Libraries , 5, 50.