Leukon (son of Athamas)

Leukon ( Greek  Λεύκων ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

He is a son of Athamas and Themisto . His brothers are Erythrios , Schoineus and Ptoos - the latter is also called Ptoios and, according to later reports, has a twin brother named Porphyrion - as well as Sphingios and Orchomenos .

His children are Euippe and Erythras , after whom the Boeotic city ​​of Erythrai is said to be named, and Peisidike, the mother of Argynnos .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Leukon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1999 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Leukon in the Greek Myth Index (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 2.
2. ^ Nonnos : Dionysiaka 9, 312.
3. ^ Hyginus Mythographus : Fabulae 1–5.
4. ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 9, 34, 9.
5. ↑ Pausanias : Description of Greece 6, 21, 11.