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