Krisos

Krisos ( Greek  Κρῖσος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

His parents were Phokos and Asteria ; with his twin brother Panopeus he is said to have "quarreled in the womb". Krisos built the city named after him, Krisa, on the southern slope of the Parnassus . This area - called Phocis - was later ruled by his son Strophios , who was born to him by his wife Antiphateia , a daughter of Naubolos. Through his son Strophios, Krisos became the grandfather of the Pylades .

literature

• Ludwig Less : Krisos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1447 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tzetzes , Commentary on Lykophron 939.
2. ↑ Scholion to Euripides , Orestes 33; Stephanos of Byzantium , s. Krisa ; Tzetzes, Commentary on Lycophron 1070.
3. ↑ Pausanias 2:29 , 4; Scholion to Euripides, Orestes 33.