Cretheus
In Greek mythology, Cretheus ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|r|iː|θ|i|ə|s|,_|-|θj|uː|s}}; Ancient Greek: Κρηθεύς Krētheus) was the king and founder of Iolcus.
Family
Cretheus was the son of King Aeolus of Aeolia (son of Hellen) by either EnareteHesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a); Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Cretheus 1.7.3] or Laodice.Scholia on Homer, Odyssey [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0055:book=11:commline=235&highlight=laodice 11.235] He was the brother of Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Peisidice, Calyce and Perimede.
Cretheus's wives were Tyro, his niece, and Demodice or Biadice.Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.20; she unsuccessfully tried to seduce Phrixus and falsely accused him of an attempt to rape her, cf. the stories of Phaedra and Hippolytus, Stheneboea and Bellerophon, Astydamia and Peleus, Phthia/Clytia and Phoenix, Philonome and Tenes, Ochne and Eunostus With Tyro, he fathered Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon.Homer, Odyssey 11.259; Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.11&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=9&highlight=Cretheus 1.9.11]; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 175
Mythology
When Cretheus found out that Tyro had an affair with Poseidon, he left her and married Demodice.{{Cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Edith|title=Mythology|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year=1942|isbn=9780316438520|pages=299}} He also had several daughters, namely Hippolyte, future wife of AcastusPindar, Nemean Ode 4.57 (otherwise known as AstydamiaApollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.13.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=13&highlight=Astydamia 3.13.2]), Myrina who married Thoas,Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.601 and possibly Phalanna, eponym of Phalanna.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Φάλαννα
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References
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- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0136 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0135 Greek text available from the same website].
- Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/207 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0161%3Abook%3DN. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Pseudo-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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
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