Zeuxippos (son of Eumelos)

Zeuxippos ( Greek  Ζεύξιππος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Zeuxippos was the son of Eumelos , king of Pherai in Thessaly , who led eleven ships from Pherai and Iolkos in the Trojan War . About his son Harmenios he was the grandfather of Henioche , who was the mother of Melanthos . But Melanthos was the founder of the mythical royal dynasty of the Melanthids in Athens , which ended the long rule of the Kekropiden .

swell

• Hellanikos of Lesbos in a Scholion to Plato , Symposium 208 D

literature

• Friedrich Pfister : Zeuxippos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 6, Leipzig 1937, column 759 ( digitized version ).