Car or Kar (
Ancient Greek: Κάρ) is a name in
Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.[1]
Car, king of
Megara and son of
Phoroneus by
Cerdo.[2] His tomb was located on the road from Megara to
Corinth.[3] From Car, the
acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria[4] where the 'Chamber of
Demeter' was said to have been built by him when he was the king of the land.[5]
^Smith, p. 607. CAR (Καρ), a son of
Phoroneus, and king of
Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name
Caria. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, 40. § 5). His tomb was shown as late as the time of
Pausanias, on the road from Megara to
Corinth, (i. 44. § 9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of
Lydus and
Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the
Carians, is mentioned by
Herodotus, (i. 171.) [L. S.]
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.
Online version 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 includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
Car or Kar (
Ancient Greek: Κάρ) is a name in
Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.[1]
Car, king of
Megara and son of
Phoroneus by
Cerdo.[2] His tomb was located on the road from Megara to
Corinth.[3] From Car, the
acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria[4] where the 'Chamber of
Demeter' was said to have been built by him when he was the king of the land.[5]
^Smith, p. 607. CAR (Καρ), a son of
Phoroneus, and king of
Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name
Caria. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, 40. § 5). His tomb was shown as late as the time of
Pausanias, on the road from Megara to
Corinth, (i. 44. § 9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of
Lydus and
Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the
Carians, is mentioned by
Herodotus, (i. 171.) [L. S.]
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.
Online version 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 includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.