Chimaireus
Chimaireus ( Greek Χιμαιρεύς ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is the son of Prometheus with Kelaino and brother of Lycus .
Like his brother, Chimaireus was buried in Troy . During a plague in Sparta , an oracle instructed a noble Lacedaemonian to make a sacrifice on the graves of the brothers to end the plague. Menelaus then traveled to Troy, made the sacrifices and during this time he was the hospitality of Paris - a hospitality that was to spark the Trojan War .
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Chimaireus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 895 ( digitized version ).