Euphorion (mythology)

Euphorion ( ancient Greek Εὐφορίων Euphoríōn ) is after Ptolemy Chennos a son of Achilles and Helena , when they were already living on the island of the blessed . Zeus fell in love with the winged youth, pursued him and finally struck him with lightning on the island of Melos because he did not return his love. Zeus forbade burying him and turned the nymphs who buried him into frogs.

In Goethe's Faust. The second part of the tragedy is Euphorion, a son of Faust and Helena.

source

• Extract from Ptolemy Chennos, Kaine Historia 4 at Photios , Library 190

literature

• René Bloch: Euphorion 1. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 265.
• Georg Knaack : Euphorion 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, column 1174.
• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Euphorion . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1408 ( digitized version ).