Colonos (mythology)
Colonos ( ancient Greek Κολωνός ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is a hero from Tanagra , his sons Ochemos , Leon and Bukolos , his daughter is Ochna . The daughter Ochna tries to seduce the beautiful youth Eunostus . When she fails to do this, she accuses Eunostus of having done violence to her brothers, whereupon they kill Eunostus. Elieus , Eunostus' father, has the brothers captured. After Ochna confessed the truth and threw herself off a rock in remorse, they are set free again.
The poet Sophocles , who comes from the Attic Demos Kolonos , names a Kolonos in his drama Oedipus auf Kolonos as the eponymous hero of the Demos. It is uncertain whether he had the hero from Tanagra in mind.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Colonos 1 & 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1274 ( digitized version ).