Learchos (mythology)

Learchus ( Greek  Λέαρχος , Latin Learchus ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

He is the son of Athamas and his second wife Ino . His brother is Melikertes .

Learchus is killed by his father Athamas. According to some versions, Athamas is cursed by Hera , so that he snatches Learchus from his mother and smashes him on a rock. According to another version, he is so angry with Ino when he learns that she has spun an intrigue against his children from his first marriage, Phrixos and Helle , that he deliberately wants to kill them and their children. Ino then jumps into the sea with Melikertes.

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 1-2. 3, 4, 3.
• Hyginus Mythographus : Fabulae 1–2. 4th
• Ovid : Metamorphoses 4, 516.
• Pausanias : Description of Greece 1, 44, 7. 9, 34, 7.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Learchos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1921 ( digitized version ).