Erginos
Erginos ( Greek Ἐργῖνος ) is king of the Minyan Orchomenos in Greek mythology .
Life
Erginos was the son of Clymenos or Periklymenos and the father of Trophonios and Agamedes . He is mentioned in the first deeds of the young Heracles and is also said to have been one of the Argonauts .
Erginos turned gray at an early age and was therefore mocked by the Lemnians during the Argonauts' stay on Lemnos , where he won a race.
His father, Clymenus, king of the Minyans, was fatally wounded by a stone throw by Perieres , the charioteer of the Theban nobleman Menoikeus . As he died, he committed his son, who followed him on the throne, to vengeance. Erginos subjugated Thebes, disarmed the city and obliged the Thebans to send him 100 cattle annually as tribute for 20 years. Heracles, who lived in Thebes, rebelled against it. He mutilated the heralds who wanted to receive the annual tribute and chased them out of the city bound. When Erginos found out about this, he demanded Heracles' extradition, which the Theban king Creon was afraid to agree to, but Heracles gathered a small group of young men who prepared themselves with the weapons that were hung in the Theban temples as sacred objects. Erginos sent an army against Thebes, but it was defeated by Heracles, his stepfather Amphitryon and her band at a narrow pass in the mountains. In this battle Erginos fell at Herakles' hand, but Amphitryon was also killed. After the battle, the city and castle of Orchomenos were captured and burned by Heracles. From then on, the Minyans had to pay the Thebans twice the tribute they had received.
According to an alternative version, Erginos survived the war against Heracles and made peace. He remained unmarried and childless into old age. However, since he longed for children, he married a young woman on advice from the oracle of Delphi and fathered Trophonios and Agamedes with her.
swell
- Diodor , Bibliothéke historiké
- Libraries of Apollodorus
- Pausanias , Helládos Periēgēsis
- Hyginus , Fabulae
- Pindar , Epinikia
literature
- Richard Engelmann : Erginos 3) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 1301-1303 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Erginos in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2, 4, 11
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ↑ According to Hyginus, Fabulae 14. Apollonios of Rhodos , Valerius Flaccus and the Apollodorus library and, alternatively, Hyginus instead name an Erginos, son of Poseidon , from Miletus .
- ↑ Pindar, Olympic Chants 4, 31-42
- ↑ Diodor, Bibliothéke historiké 4,10; Libraries of Apollodor 2, 4, 11
- ↑ Pausanias, Helládos Periēgēsis 9.37