Pteleon

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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

Individual evidence

  1. Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 1.
  2. Tzetzes Chiliades 1, 544.
  3. ^ Karl Kerényi, The Mythology of the Greeks , Vol. II, p. 229. ISBN 3-423-01346-X