Butes (son of Teleon)
Butes ( Greek Βούτης ), the son of Teleon, is a figure in Greek mythology . He came from Attica . Zeuxippe is given as his mother, but this could be due to a confusion with Butes , the son of Pandion , whose mother was also called Zeuxippe .
He took part in the Argonauts voyage. When the sirens wanted to beguile the Argonauts with their song, Orpheus managed to save all participants from the danger with his counter- song . Only Butes jumped into the sea to get to them. Aphrodite saved him from drowning and brought him to Lilybaion in Sicily . He became king of the Elymers . Together with Aphrodite he had the son Eryx .
literature
- Richard Engelmann : Butes 3) . 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 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 1081 f.