Ophion (giant)
Ophion ( Greek Ὀφίων ), also Ophioneus ( Greek Ὀφιονεύς ), is a giant of Greek mythology .
In a scholion to Homer's Iliad , Ophion took part in the battle of the giants against the god Zeus in Tartessus . Zeus defeated Ophion by killing him with a mountain named after him Ophionion. The mountain could refer to the island of Formentera off the Iberian coast , which the ancient writer Strabo called Ophiussa in his work on the geography of the Mediterranean .
Occasionally the giant Ophion is treated as identical to the first world ruler Ophion . It is also unclear whether he is identical with a third Ophion , the father of the centaur Amykos , who is nicknamed Ophionides by Ovid .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Ophion 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 925 ( digitized version ).
- Ernst Wüst : Ophion 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 1, Stuttgart 1939, Sp. 645 f.
- Lutz Käppel : Ophion 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 8, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01478-9 , column 1254.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schol. ad Hom. II. 8, 479.
- ↑ a b John Pairman Brown: Cosmological Myth and the Tuna of Gibraltar . In: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association . tape 99 , 1968, pp. 53 .
- ^ Strabo , Geographika , 3, 5, 1.
- ^ Ovid , Metamorphoses 12, 245.
- ↑ Otto Höfer : Ophion 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 925 ( digitized version ).