Parthaon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Parthaon ({{langx|grc|Παρθάων|Parthaon}}) may refer to two different characters:
- Parthaon, more commonly known as Porthaon, king of Calydon and father of Oeneus, the grandfather of Diomedes.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Porthaon 1.7.7] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Porthaon 10]
- Parthaon, an Arcadian king as the son of Periphetes, descendant of King Lycaon. He begat Aristus who became the ancestor of Psophis, one of the possible eponyms for the city of Psophis.Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.24.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Parthaon 8.24.1] In some accounts, Parthaon was instead the son of Dorieus, son of Eikadios and Coroneia. He was the father of Paros and Ceteus who had a daughter Callisto by Stilbe.Scholion on Euripides, Orestes 1646{{Cite book|last=Fowler, Robert L.|title=Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-19-814741-1|location=Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom|pages=107}}
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- 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Fowler, Robert L., Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-19-814741-1}}
- 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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