Triopas, king of
Thessaly, and son of
Poseidon and princess
Canace, daughter of King
Aeolus of Aeolia. He was the brother of
Aloeus,
Epopeus,
Hopleus and
Nireus. Triopas was the husband of
Myrmidon's daughter
Hiscilla, by whom he became the father of
Iphimedeia,[3]Phorbas[4] and
Erysichthon.[5] He destroyed a temple of
Demeter in order to obtain materials for roofing his own house, and was punished by insatiable hunger as well as being plagued by a snake which inflicted illness on him. Eventually Demeter placed him and the snake among the stars as the constellation
Ophiuchus to remind others of his crime and punishment.[6] A city in
Caria was named
Triopion after him.[7]
Triopas, one of the
Heliadae, sons of
Helios and
Rhodos and grandson of Poseidon. Triopas, along with his brothers,
Macar,
Actis and
Candalus, were jealous of a fifth brother,
Tenages's, skill at science, and killed him. When their crime was discovered, Triopas escaped to
Caria and seized a promontory which received his name (the
Triopian Promontory). Later, he founded the city of
Knidos.[8] There was a statue of him and his horse at
Delphi, an offering by the people of Knidos.[9]
The name's
popular etymology is "he who has three eyes" (from τρι- "three" + -ωπ- "see") but the ending -ωψ, -οπος suggests a
Pre-Greek origin.
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.
Further reading
Arthur Bernard Cook. "Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak". The Classical Review18:1:75-89 (February 1904).
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.
Triopas, king of
Thessaly, and son of
Poseidon and princess
Canace, daughter of King
Aeolus of Aeolia. He was the brother of
Aloeus,
Epopeus,
Hopleus and
Nireus. Triopas was the husband of
Myrmidon's daughter
Hiscilla, by whom he became the father of
Iphimedeia,[3]Phorbas[4] and
Erysichthon.[5] He destroyed a temple of
Demeter in order to obtain materials for roofing his own house, and was punished by insatiable hunger as well as being plagued by a snake which inflicted illness on him. Eventually Demeter placed him and the snake among the stars as the constellation
Ophiuchus to remind others of his crime and punishment.[6] A city in
Caria was named
Triopion after him.[7]
Triopas, one of the
Heliadae, sons of
Helios and
Rhodos and grandson of Poseidon. Triopas, along with his brothers,
Macar,
Actis and
Candalus, were jealous of a fifth brother,
Tenages's, skill at science, and killed him. When their crime was discovered, Triopas escaped to
Caria and seized a promontory which received his name (the
Triopian Promontory). Later, he founded the city of
Knidos.[8] There was a statue of him and his horse at
Delphi, an offering by the people of Knidos.[9]
The name's
popular etymology is "he who has three eyes" (from τρι- "three" + -ωπ- "see") but the ending -ωψ, -οπος suggests a
Pre-Greek origin.
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.
Further reading
Arthur Bernard Cook. "Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak". The Classical Review18:1:75-89 (February 1904).
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.