Kleon (comrade of Nireus)
Cleon ( Greek Κλέων ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He was a participant in the Trojan War on the side of the Greeks and came from the island of Syme in the Dodecanese . He was a comrade in arms of Nireus , king of Syme, and was killed in the war by Polydamas , the son of the Panthoos .
Remarks
- ↑ Quintus Smyrnaeus , Posthomerica 11, 60.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kleon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1223 ( digitized version ).