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Alcathous (;
Ancient Greek : Ἀλκάθοος) was the name of several people in
Greek mythology :
Alcathous, a
Calydonian prince as the son of King
Porthaon and
Euryte , daughter of
Hippodamas .
[1] He was the brother of
Oeneus (successor of Porthaon),
Agrius ,
Melas ,
Leucopeus , and
Sterope . Alcathous was the second suitor of
Hippodamia , and thus slain by her father
Oenomaus like the other suitors except
Pelops .
[2]
Alcathous, possible son of Agrius who together with his brother
Lycopeus , died at the hands of his cousin,
Tydeus who went then into exile to
Argos .
[3]
Alcathous , son of Pelops, who killed the
Cithaeronian lion .
[4]
Alcathous, one of the guardians of
Thebes . He was killed by
Amphiaraus during the war of the
Seven against Thebes .
[5]
Alcathous, a Trojan soldier in the company of
Paris and
Agenor . He was son of
Aesyetes and husband of
Hippodamia , sister of Aeneas.
[6]
[7] Alcathous' mother may be
Cleomestra , daughter of
Tros , and thus, brother to
Antenor and
Assaracus . Alcathous was slain by
Idomeneus , king of
Crete .
[8]
Alcathous, another
Trojan warrior, killed by
Achilles in the
Trojan War .
[9]
Alcathous, one of the companions of
Aeneas . He was killed by
Caedicus , one of the warriors of
Turnus .
[10]
Alcathous, another, otherwise unknown personage of this name is mentioned by Virgil.
See also
Notes
^
Apollodorus , 1.7.10 & 1.8.5
^
Pausanias , 6.20.17 & 6.21.10
^
Diodorus Siculus , 4.65.2
^
Smith, William (1867).
"Alcathous (1)" . In
William Smith (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company . pp. 97–98. Archived from
the original on 2007-09-07.
^
Statius ,
Thebaid 7.718
^
Scholia on
Homer ,
Iliad 13.429
^
Hesychius of Alexandria s. v
^ Homer, Iliad 12.93 & 13.427 ff.
^
Quintus Smyrnaeus , 3.158
^
Virgil ,
Aeneid 10.747
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