Bounos
{{Short description|Son of Hermes and Alcidamia}}
In Greek mythology, Bounos or Bunus (Ancient Greek: Βοῦνος means 'hill, mound') was the Corinthian son of Hermes and Alcidamea/Alcidamia.{{Cite book|last=Grimal, Pierre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMj9mAEIml0C&dq=Bounos&pg=PA77|title=The Dictionary of Classical Mythology|publisher=Blackwell|year=1996|isbn=978-0-631-20102-1|pages=75}}Pausanias, 2.3.10; Theopompus FgH 1.332
Mythology
Bunus received the throne of Ephyra (an early name of Corinth) from Aeëtes, when the latter decided to migrate to Colchis, biding him to keep it until he or his children came back.Pausanias, 2.3.10; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 174 He is said to have built a sanctuary to Hera Bunaea on the road which led up to Acrocorinthus.Pausanias, 2.4.7 After the death of Bounus, Epopeus of Sicyon, who had come from Thessaly, extended his own kingdom to include Corinth.Pausanias, 2.3.10
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References
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. {{ISBN|978-0-631-20102-1}}
- 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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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Category:Mythological Corinthians
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