Plexippus (son of Thestios)

Plexippos ( Greek  Πλήξιππος ) is the son of Thestios in Greek mythology . He took part in the hunt for the Calydonian boar . Meleager had offered a hunting trophy for it. After the boar was killed, Meleager did not give the trophy to Plexippus, but to a woman. Plexippus was very angry about this. In the ensuing argument, Meleager killed him.

swell

• Libraries of Apollodorus 3,15,3
• Scholion to Sophocles Antigone 980

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Plexippos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 2564 ( digitized version ).
• Lutz Käppel : Plexippos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , Sp. 1135.