Elatos (Lapith)
Elatos ( Greek Ἔλατος ) is in Greek mythology a prince of the Thessalian people of the Lapiths who resides in Larisa .
Elatos was married to Hippe (or Hippeia), who had Anthippos as a father. Two Argonauts are named as the sons of Elatos: Polyphemus and Kaineus . If, on the other hand, the sea god Poseidon is referred to as the father of Polyphemus in other sources , it is likely to be confused with the Cyclops Polyphemus of the Odyssey , while Kaineus is supposed to have been originally a girl according to a Hellenistic metamorphosis legend: Accordingly, Elatos was the father of the Cainis , who had been made an invulnerable, strong man by Poseidon at her request and was from now on called Kaineus. After one of the as Larisaioi titled work of the Greek poet Sophocles derived fragment also should Dotia that Eponymin of Thessaly city Dotion , a subsidiary of Lapithenfürsten Elatos been his.
literature
- Otto Waser : Elatos 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 2240.
- August Schultz : Elatos 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 1231 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 1:41; 1, 1241; 1, 1248; Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 16, 9; Orpheus Argonautika 168 and 654; Hyginus , Fabulae 14.
- ↑ Scholien zu Homer , Iliad 1, 264; Hyginus, Fabulae 14; 173; 242; Orpheus Argonautika 170; Lukian , Gallus 19.
- ↑ Phlegon von Tralleis , mirabilia 5; Ovid , Metamorphoses 12, 189 and 497.
- ↑ Sophocles in Stephanos of Byzantium , s. Dotion .