Molos (father of Meriones)
Molos ( Greek Μόλος ) is a Cretan in Greek mythology . The genealogy is unclear: he was the illegitimate son of Deucalion or his brother and thus son of Minos . Thus he was the uncle or brother of Deucalion's son Idomeneus . Molos was the father of Meriones .
From Amphidamas of Kythera Molos received a boar tooth helmet as a gift, which he passed on to his son, who gave it to Odysseus .
Plutarch reports from a Cretan festival at which a headless doll was shown to represent Molos , the father of Meriones, who once tried to rape a nymph and was then found without a head.
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- Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum 14
- Libraries of Apollodorus 3.17
- Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97
- Diodor , Libraries 5.79
- Homer , Iliad 10,269
literature
- Pool: Molos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3112 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Lutz Käppel : Molos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , Sp. 348.
- Hans Treidler: Molos 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVI, 1, Stuttgart 1933, Col. 14.