Plexippus (son of Phineus)

Plexippos ( Greek  Πλήξιππος ) is the son of Phineus and Cleopatra in Greek mythology .

In the library of Apollodorus he and his brother Pandion are slanderously accused by their stepmother Idaia of having made improper requests to her. Phineus believes it and blinds his sons.

In Diodorus it is reported that the unnamed sons of Phineus were buried in the earth and continuously beaten with scourges until they were finally found by the Argonauts on their way through and, on their pleading and their description of the prehistory, by the Boreads Kalaïs and Zetes were freed.

In other traditions of the saga, different names of the brothers are given; so they are also called Terymbas and Aspondos , Oreithyios and Krambos ( Krambis ), Parthenios and Krambis or Polymedes and Klytios .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Plexippos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 2564 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 200.
2. ^ Diodor Bibliotheke 4, 43.
3. ↑ Scholien zu Sophocles, Antigone 971 and 981.
4. ↑ Scholien zu Apollonios von Rhodes 2, 140 and 2, 178.
5. ↑ Anthologia Palatina 3, 4.