Dorkeus
Dorkeus ( ancient Greek Δορκεύσ ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is the son of the hippocoon from Amyklai . Pausanias reports about Heroa of the sons of the Hippocoon who were in Sparta behind a portico next to a group of plane trees. In the group of plane trees was a heroon of the Olympian Kyniska , who was venerated there as a cultural hero of horse breeding. Besides Dorkeus, the sons of the hippocoons Alkimus , Enaraiphoros and Sebros were venerated. Next to the Heroon of Dorkeus was a well, which was named Dorkeia after him , and a nearby square was named after Zebros Sebrion .
A myth about the sons of Hippocon is depicted in the library of Apollodorus , but there are more than four of them and they have different names. Together with his sons Dorykleus , Skaios , Enarophoros , Bukolos , Euteiches , Lykaithos , Tebros , Hippothoos , Eurytos , Hippokorystes , Alkinos and Alkon, Hippokoon drives the rulers of Sparta , Ikarios and Tyndareos out of the city. Hippocoon and all his sons are killed by Heracles , whereupon Tyndareus takes control again.
Dorkeus can probably be identified with Dorycleus from the library , as well as Sebros with Tebros.
literature
- Richard Wagner : Dorkeus 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, column 1567 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Dorkeus 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 1198 ( digitized version ).