Pelasgos (son of Triopas)

Pelasgos ( Greek  Πελασγός ) is a son of Triopas and Soïs in Greek mythology . He is the brother of Iasos , Agenor and Xanthos . Chrysanthis was probably his sister.

Pelasgos takes Demeter in, where she tells Chrysanthis about the robbery of the Kore . He built her a shrine to Demeter Pelasgis, near which the tomb of Pelasgos was shown in Pausanias' time.

With Iasos he is said to have ruled over Argos, one over the western, the other over the eastern part of the kingdom. In this role he built Larissa Castle , which he named after his daughter Larissa .

literature

• Paul Weizsäcker : Pelasgos 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 1819 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scholion to Eur. Orestes. 920; see also Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 145.
2. ^ Pausanias 1, 14, 2.
3. ^ Pausanias 2:22 , 2.
4. ↑ Pausanias 2:24 , 1; Hellanikos , fragments of the Greek historians 4 F 36a and 36b ( Scholion to Iliad 3; 75); Strabon , Geographica 8, 6, 7.