Corythus Explained

Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.

• Corythus, son of Marmarus, and one of the court of Cepheus. He wounded Pelates during the battle at the wedding feast of Perseus and Andromeda.^[1]
• Corythus, an Italian king and father, in some sources, of Iasion^[2] and Dardanus^[3] by Electra.^[4]
• Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by Rhoetus, one of the Centaurs.^[5]
• Corythus, an Iberian, beloved of Heracles. Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet (Greek korys, gen. korythos), which took its name from him.^[6]
• Corythus, one of the Doliones. He was killed by Tydeus.^[7]
• Corythus, a king who raised Telephus, son of Heracles and Auge, as his own son.^[8]
• Corythus, son of Paris and the nymph Oenone. After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy - now grown - to Troy, to incite jealousy in his father and to plot "something bad" against Paris' second wife.^[9] He fell in love with her, and she "received him warmly". Upon discovering this, Paris killed him – unable to recognise his own son. Other versions state Oenone sent Corythus to guide the Achaean armies to Troy.^{[10] [11]} Corythus was alternatively said to be the son of Helen and Paris,^[12] who died along with his two brothers when a roof collapsed in Troy.^[13]

Notes

1. [Ovid]
2. [Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]
3. [Lactantius]
4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 19th-century encyclopedia of classics.
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290
6. [Ptolemy Hephaestion]
7. [Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]
8. [Diodorus Siculus]
9. [Conon (mythographer)|Conon]
10. [Lycophron]
11. [Tzetzes]
12. [Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]
13. [Dictys Cretensis]

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.