Klymenos (King of Orchomenos)

Clymenus ( Greek Κλύμενος ) is in Greek mythology a king of the Boeotian Orchomenus .

He is usually considered one of three sons of King Orchomenus . According to another legend, Orchomenus died childless and the rule of the king passed to Clymenus, who in this version was the son of Presbon, a descendant of Phrixus . Clymenus's wife was Buzyge, a daughter of Lycus ; in other versions it is called Budeia. His sons were: Erginos , Stration, Arrhon, Pyleus and Azeus . Homer names Eurydice , Nestor's wife , as his eldest daughter . Furthermore, ancient authors mention another daughter named Axia.

Clymenus was killed in the grove of Poseidon near Onchestus by a stone throwing a Theban . According to Apollodor Periedes , the charioteer of Menoikeus , the culprit is said to have been. Erginos, who succeeded his father on the throne, then marched against Thebes, subjugated it and imposed an annual tribute of 100 cattle on him for 20 years.

literature

Richard Engelmann : Klymenos 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1229 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

↑ Pausanias 9:37, 1
↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 185
↑ Eustathios , Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 1076, 25; Scholion to Homer's Iliad 16,572.
↑ Homer, Odyssey 3,452
↑ Richard Engelmann: Erginos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1301 ( digitized version ).

[1] Pausanias 9:37, 1

[2] Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 185

[3] Eustathios , Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 1076, 25; Scholion to Homer's Iliad 16,572.

[4] Homer, Odyssey 3,452

[5] Richard Engelmann: Erginos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1301 ( digitized version ).