Thoön (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Thoön (Ancient Greek: Θόων Thóōn)^[1] is a name that refers to:

• Thoon, one of the Gigantes (also called Thoas), who, together with Agrios, was clubbed to death by the Moirai during the Gigantomachy.^[2]
• Thoon, one of the Trojans, son of Phaenops and twin brother of Xanthus. He and his brother were killed by Diomedes.^[3]
• Thoon, another Trojan, who was killed by Antilochus during the attack on the Achaean wall.^[4]
• Thoon, a Lycian ally of the Trojans who followed their leader, Sarpedon, to fight in the Trojan War. He was slain by the Greek hero Odysseus during the siege of Troy.^[5]
• Thoon, one of the Phaeacians, a participant in the games in honor of Odysseus.^[6]
• Thoon, one of the warriors in Dionysus' army during his Indian campaign. He died at the hands of Corymbasus (Κορύμβασος).^[7]
• Thoon, son of Icarius of Sparta and Asterodia, daughter of Eurypylus.^[8] He was the brother of Amasichus, Phalereus, Pheremmelias, Perilaos and Laodice^[9] or Laodamia.^[10]

See also

• for Jovian asteroid 34746 Thoon

References

• 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. 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.
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. Georg Autenrieth, A Homeric Dictionary, s.v. Θόων.
2. Smith, s.v. Thoon; Apollodorus, 1.6.2
3. [Homer]
4. Homer, Iliad 12.140 & 13.545
5. Homer, Iliad 11.422; Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.259
6. Homer, Odyssey 8.113
7. [Nonnus]
8. [Scholia]
9. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 1.275 & 277
10. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 4. 797