Stymphalos (son of Elatos)
Stymphalos ( Greek Στύμφαλος ) is the eponymous founder of the city of Stymphalos in Greek mythology .
He is the son of Elatos and brother of Pereus, according to the library of Apollodorus his mother is Laodike . Plutarch gives Ares as his father and Dormothea as his mother . With Pausanias he has the sons Agamedes , Gortys and Agelaos , with Apollodorus the daughter Parthenope .
After Apollodorus he was king of Arcadia . Pelops , the son of Tantalus and King of Phrygia, feigned his friendship and killed him. As a result, there were crop failures all over Greece, which only ended when Aiakos, on the advice of an oracle, pleaded for them to end.
literature
- Ernst Kuhnert : Stymphalos 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 1565 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Stymphalos in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Library of Apollodor 3,9,1
- ↑ Pausanias 8: 4, 2.
- ↑ Plutarch : De fluviorum et montium nominibus et de iis quae in illis inveniuntur 19.
- ↑ Pausanias 8: 4, 8.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,7,8
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 12, 6