Dorieus (son of Neoptolemus)

Dorieus ( Greek Δωριεύς ) is a son of Neoptolemus and Leonassa in Greek mythology . On his father's side he was consequently a grandson of Achilles , on his mother's side he was a great- or great-great-grandson of Heracles .

It is unique to the one around 200 BC. The mythographer who wrote in BC called Lysimachos , who gives Leonassa as the mother's name. Usually, however, the wife of Neoptolemus is called Lanassa. According to Lysimachos, Dorieus was Buder or half-brother of Eraos , Pergamos , Argos , Pandaros , Eurymachos , Danae and Troas .

literature

Hermann Steuding : Dorieus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1198 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.

[1] Lysimachus in the Scholien zu Euripides , Andromache 24 and 32; see Felix Jacoby , The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 382 F 10.