Pteleon
Pteleon ( Greek Πτελέον ) is in Greek mythology the eponymous hero of Ptelea, the " elm village " (Greek Pteléa = elm) in Attica .
In the legend he was known as the one who seduced Prokris to the first infidelity to her husband Cephalus by giving her a gold headband as a gift. Cephalos caught them both, and Prokris, offended, fled to King Minos in Crete .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Pteleon . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 3259 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 1.
- ↑ Tzetzes Chiliades 1, 544.
- ^ Karl Kerényi, The Mythology of the Greeks , Vol. II, p. 229. ISBN 3-423-01346-X