Orsilochos (son of Alpheios)

Orsilochos ( Greek  Ὀρσίλοχος ), also Ortilochos (Greek Ὀρτίλοχος ) is a son of the river god Alpheios and king of the Messenian city Pharai in Greek mythology .

In Homer he is only mentioned as the son of the river god, he is the father of Diocles , who has the sons Krethon and Orsilochus . Pausanias tells of a Messenian myth according to which the mother of Orsilochus is Telegone , the daughter of the founder of Pharai Pharis . In Scholia , apart from Diocles, Dorodoche , the wife of Icarius and mother of Penelope , and Medusa , the wife of the Corinthian king Polybos , are mentioned.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Orsilochos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1208 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Otto Hoefer: Ortilochos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1218 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Homer Odyssey 3, 489; 15, 187; 21, 16; Iliad 5, 545 ff.
3. ↑ Pherekydes, Fragment 90 at the Scholion zu Homer, Odyssey 15, 16, in: Karl Müller , Theodor Müller , Victor Langlois (eds.): Fragmenta historicorum graecorum (FHG), vol. 1, p. 93.
4. ↑ Pherecydes, Scholion zu Sophocles , Oidipus Rex 485