Euchenor (Troy)
Euchenor ( Greek Εὐχήνωρ ) is a male figure in Greek mythology .
Euchenor was a wealthy Corinthian noblewoman and is considered by Homer to be the son of the seer Polyidus . According to Pausanias, however, his father's name was Koiranos ; Polyidos was his grandfather. In the Attic city of Megara , he is said to have consecrated a portrait of Dionysus Dasyllios in the sanctuary of Dionysus . According to a genealogical fragment of Pherecytes , Euchenor descended from the well-known seer and physician Melampus via Polyidus, Koiranos, Kleitos and Mantios ; his mother's name was therefore Eurydameia and was a daughter of Phyleus and thus granddaughter of Augias , king of Elis . According to the same source, he and his brother Kleitus are said to have joined the epigones' march against Thebes .
The Iliad reports that Polyidus prophesied to his son Euchenor that it would be his destiny either to slowly succumb to illness at home or, if he participated in the Trojan War , to fall in the course of it. Euchenor wanted to save himself the infirmity and instead seek glory before Troy ; Paris killed him with an arrow shot.
literature
- Erich Wilisch : Euchenor 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1397 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Euchenor 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 881.
Remarks
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 13,663.
- ^ Pausanias, Helládos Periēgēsis 1, 43, 5.
- ↑ Pherekydes in Scholion and Eustathios zu Homer, Ilias 13, 663, in: Karl Müller et al. (FHG): Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG), vol. 4, p. 638.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 13: 663-672; see. Pindar , Olympia 13, 78 f. with scholia; Cicero , De divinatione 1.40 ; among others