Phineus (son of Agenor)
Phineus ( Greek Φινεύς ), the son of the Phoenician king Agenor , was the king of Salmydessus in Thrace and a seer. With his first wife Cleopatra , the daughter of Boreas , he had two sons, Plexippus and Pandion .
His second wife, Idaia or Eidothea, a daughter of Dardanos , induced him to blind his sons from his first marriage. For this he was tormented by the harpies who, whenever he sat down at the table, stole the food from him and soiled the rest, so that he was tormented by constant hunger. According to another version, this punishment was imposed on him by Poseidon for betraying the way from Colchis to Greece to the children of Phrixus .
When the Argonauts landed at Phineus, he was freed from this plague by the brothers of Cleopatra, the Boreads Kalaïs and Zetes , and in gratitude he showed them the way to go.
literature
- Otto Jessen : Phineus 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2357-2375 ( digitized version ).
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Remarks
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3,200.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1,120.