Arestor

Ancient Greek mythological figure

In Greek mythology, Arestor (Ancient Greek: Ἀρέστωρ, gen.: Ἀρέστορος) may refer to two distinct characters:

  • Arestor, an Argive prince as the son of Phorbas[1] (possibly by Euboea[2]) or Iasus[3] or Ecbasus.[4] According to Pausanias,[5] he was the husband of Mycene, the daughter of Inachus, from whom the city of Mycenae derived its name. Possibly by this woman, Arestor was the father of Argus Panoptes who was called therefore Arestorides.[6] Pelasgus, father of Lycaon of Arcadia, was also called the son of Arestor.[7][8]
  • Arestor, father of another Argus, the builder of Argo.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116
  2. ^ Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 920
  3. ^ Scholion on Euripides, Orestes 1646
  4. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Parrasia
  5. ^ Pausanias, 2.16.4
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.3, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.624.; scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 1116
  7. ^ Scholion on Euripides, Orestes 1646; Stephanus, s.v. Parrasia
  8. ^ Fowler, Robert L. (2013). Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1.
  9. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.112; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 883

References

  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Fowler, Robert L., Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Arestor". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 277.

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