Triopas (Thessaly)
Triopas ( Greek Τριόπας ), son of Poseidon and Kanake , brother of Aloeus , is a figure in Greek mythology .
Originally from the Thessalian Dotion , it became known in the Hexapolis , a settlement area of the Dorians in the southwest of Asia Minor. Here a promontory bore his name (today's Datça Peninsula ), and he was considered the founder of the city of Knidos (Triopion). His son Erysichthon incurred the wrath of Demeter when he felled a tree and the dryad who lived in it .
In fact, Triopas (the three-faced man , also known as Triops or Triopios) is difficult to define in mythology because the saga migrated with the peoples and was often adapted to local genealogies. He is mentioned as the son of Lapithes or (in Rhodes ) that of Helios , and in Argolis as the son of Phorbas . On the island of Kos he was made the father of Merops .
In Thessaly, however, he is from Ischylla the father of the Lapith Phorbas . The descendants listed elsewhere are - apart from those already mentioned - correspondingly numerous and often only valid for the local myth; in alphabetical order: Agenor , Iasos , Iphimedeia , Messene , Pelasgos and Xanthos .
Homer names Triopas in the Iliad as an army king of the Achaeans who fell at Troy .
literature
- Maximilian Mayer : Triopas . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 1118-1125 ( digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Triopas. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 961 f.
- Vollmer's Mythology of All Nations [1]
- Gottwein [2]
- Karl Otfried Müller : Prolegomena to a scientific mythology. Göttingen (Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht) 1825. p. 162
Individual evidence
- ^ Iliad II, 75.