Krokon (King)
Krokon ( Greek Κρόκων ), son of Triptolemos , is a figure in Greek mythology .
He ruled over the area of Eleusis on the border with Attica ; his hometown was still called Krokon basileia in Pausanias ' times (more than 500 years later) .
According to a local legend, Krokon was married to Saisara , the daughter of Keleos . In the Eleusinian myths, Krokon and his illegitimate brother Koiron are the namesake of two priestly families who later fought a legal dispute over their dignity in the mystery cult . The crokonides built a temple to the goddess Hestia at that time. The name of the family is derived from the activity of the krokūn (κροκοῦν), the tying of woolen threads on the right hand and left foot of the mystics .
Krokon's daughter Meganeira married Arkas , the progenitor of the Arcadians , and fathered the sons Elatos and Apheidas with him .
Metaneira is named as the mother of Krokon . However, there is a discrepancy here, since his wife Saisara was allegedly a sister of his father (i.e. Krokon's aunt): Triptolemos could only have been Krokon's father and son of Keleos through incest. Others explain this, as so often, in the amalgamation of myths and insertions into later genealogies.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Krokon . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1449 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Karl Scherling : Krokon 3. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Col. 1970 f.
- Hans von Geisau : Krokon. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 354.