Krotos
Krotos or Kroton ( Greek Κρότος or Κρότων ) is a satyr of Greek mythology . In vase painting he appears in the Dionysian Thiasos .
myth
Krotos is the son of Pan with the Eupheme and a close friend of the Muses since his mother raised them with him. After Sositheos his mother is called Euschemo and Krotos sets the pace to the songs of the muses.
He was a very skilled archer and hunter, is considered the inventor of the hunting bow, and achieved a high reputation for his diligence, his zeal and his speed in the forest. As a reward for this, the muses asked Zeus to immortalize him in a constellation, which was then granted. Krotos was placed in the sky as the constellation Sagittarius , Sagittarius . Zeus wanted to show all of his abilities in a single constellation. Because of his speed he gave him the flanks of a horse, an arrow as an expression of his ingenuity and the tail of a satyr , since the muses won him just as much fun as Dionysus enjoyed his satyrs. In front of his feet he has a wreath of stars that he had thrown from himself while playing.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Krotos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1575 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Krotos in Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 224.
- ^ A b Hyginus Mythographus, De astronomia 2,27.
- ↑ a b Eratosthenes Cadastre 28.
- ↑ According to Sositheos in the Scholion on Claudius Caesar Germanicus Aratea 90,159.