Marron (son of Euanthes)
Maron ( Greek Μάρων ) was in Greek mythology a Thracian priest of Apollo and King of Cicones in Ismaros , probably the ancient Maroneia . He gave Odysseus the heavy wine with which he later stunned the Cyclops Polyphemus in gratitude for his protection .
With Homer he is the son of Euanthes. In the Cyclops of Euripides he appears as the son of Dionysus and in the Dionysiacs of Nonnos he is the son of Silenus , thus the grandson of Dionysus and his charioteer, in the catalog of Hesiod he is the grandson of Oinopion and thus the great grandson of Dionysus, that is, he is strongly associated with the cult of Dionysus in the later authors.
Its name is probably derived from Maroneia, which was famous for its quality wine and where a Maron cult is numismatically documented. After Diodor Maron followed Osiris as a viticulture expert and was the founder and hero of Maroneia.
literature
- Anneliese Kossatz-Deissmann: Marron . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VI, Zurich / Munich 1992, pp. 362-364.
- Bernhard Kruse: Maroon (2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIV, 2, Stuttgart 1930, Col. 1911 f.
- John Joseph Hannan Savage: The Wine of Marron. In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 96 (1965), pp. 375-401
- Adolf Schirmer: Marron 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2382 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Edzard Visser : Marron. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 942 f.
Web links
- Maron in the Theoi Project