Lokros (son of Zeus)

Lokros ( Greek  Λοκρός ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Lokros was a son of Zeus and Maira . Maira, the daughter of the Sisyphus grandson Proitus with Anteia , was a companion of Artemis and therefore committed to a virgin life. When the birth of Lokros revealed that she had lost her virginity, she was shot by Artemis.

Lokros was considered one of the mythical founders of the seven-gate Thebes , which he built together with Amphion and Zethos .

swell

• Pherecydes in the Scholion at Homer , Odyssey 11,325
• Eustathios , Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam 11, 1688,64

literature

• Ludwig Less : Lokros 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2139 ( digitized version ).