Deucalion (son of Minos)
Deucalion ( Greek Δευκαλίων ) was according to Greek mythology the son of Minos and father of Idomeneus . His mother was Pasiphae , according to the tradition of the Asklepiades of Samos , Krete was his mother, but according to the library of Apollodorus , Krete was his daughter. Molos is also named as an illegitimate son, but he is also passed down as his brother. He became king of Crete after his brother Katreus .
Deucalion, who was also a participant in the Calydonian boar hunt , married his sister Phaidra to Theseus in order to enter into an alliance with Athens . After a fragment of Atthidographers clay demos he was of Theseus, which according to Pausanias wanted to Deucalion refuge, but after Skyros was stripped, beaten. After his death, his son Idomeneus ascended the throne.
On his return to Ithaca, when he was still posing as a beggar, Odysseus told Penelope that he was a son of Deucalion and brother of Idomeneus.
Remarks
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 13,451; Homer, Odyssey 19, 180; Pherecydes in a scholion at Apollonios of Rhodes 3, 1082; Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 1, 1.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 1, 2; Hyginus , Fabulae 14; Diodorus 4, 60
- ↑ Asklepiades in the library of Apollodorus 3, 1, 2.
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 3, 1.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 3, 1; Servius , Aeneid 3, 121.
- ^ Diodorus 5, 79.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 173.
- ↑ Diodorus 4, 62.
- ^ Pausanias 1:17 , 5.
- ↑ Kleidemos in Plutarch , Theseus 19.
- ↑ Homer Odyssey 19, 178-181
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Deucalion 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 997 ( digitized version ).