Xanthos (son of Aegyptus)
Xanthos ( ancient Greek Ξάνθος Xánthos ) is one of the 50 sons of Aigyptos , the twin brother of Danaos , in Greek mythology , and is therefore one of the Aegyptiads .
According to the poorly preserved, incomplete list of 47 of 50 Danaid pairings in the fabulae of Hyginus Mythographus , he was killed by his wife Arkadia on their wedding night . The handwritten name of the wife, as it is reproduced in the first edition of the Fabulae by Jakob Micyllus - the underlying codex was subsequently lost - was Arcania . The usual reading today goes back to Herbert Jennings Rose .
literature
- Friedrich Pfister : Xanthos 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 6, Leipzig 1937, column 519 ( digitized version ).
- Gerhard Radke : Xanthos 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX A, 2, Stuttgart 1967, Sp. 1351.
Remarks
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 170.
- ↑ Jakob Micyllus: C. Ivlii Hygini Avgvsti Liberti Fabvlarvm Liber, Ad Omnivm poëtarum lectionem mire necessarius & antehac nunquam excusus. Eivsdem Poeticon Astronomicon, libri quatuor. Quibus accesserunt similis argumenti [...] Index rerum & fabularum in his omnibus scitu dignarum copiosissimus. Apud Joan. Hervagium, Basel 1535 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Herbert Jennings Rose (ed.): Hygini fabulae. 3rd, unchanged edition. Sijthoff, Leiden 1967 (1st edition 1933), on the spot; so also Peter Kenneth Marshall (ed.): Hygini fabulae. 2nd Edition. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2002, and Jean-Yves Boriaud (Ed.): Hygin: Fables. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1997, on the spot.