Ornytion
In Greek mythology, Ornytion (Ancient Greek: Ὀρνύτιων means 'moon-bird'{{Cite book|last=Graves|first=Robert|title=The Greek Myths|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1960|isbn=978-0143106715|location=Harmondsworth, London, England|pages=s.v. Tereus}}) or Ornytus (Ὄρνυτος)Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.517 may refer to two different characters:
- Ornytion, also known as Porphyrion,Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1094 a Corinthian prince who later succeeded his father, King Sisyphus, as the ruler of the Ephyraean land. His mother was the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. Ornytion was the brother of Glaucus, Thersandrus and Almus, and the father of Phocus and Thoas.Pausanias, 2.4.3; Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit de la terre 475 ff. A scholiast on Euripides related of him that he came from Aonia to join the people of Hyampolis in the battle against the Opuntian Locrians over Daphnus and won himself the kingdom, which he handed over to Phocus and returned to Corinth with his other son, Thoas, who later succeeded him.Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094
- Ornytion, son of Phocus and thus grandson of the former above Ornytion. He was the father of Naubolus.Apollonius Rhodius, 1.207; Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.517
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References
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- 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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