Kanethos (father of Skiron)

Kanethos ( Greek  Κάνηθος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to Plutarch in his biography of Theseus , the only source, Kanethos was the consort of Henioche , a daughter of Pittheus . Together they had the son of the highwayman and robber Skiron , with Plutarch specifying that, in the opinion of other people, Sinis was the son. Although so prominently introduced by Plutarch and associated with the founding of the Isthmian Games , there is no further evidence of this Kanethos.

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• Plutarch, Theseus 25.4 f.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kanethos 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 947 ( digitized version ).
• Kurt Latte : Kanethos 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1867.