Canethus

In Greek mythology, the name Canethus (/kəˈniːθəs/; Ancient Greek: Κάνηθος) may refer to:

  • Canethus, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[1] Nonacris[2] or by unknown woman. He and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Canethus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[3]
  • Canethus, son of the Euboean Abas and father of the Argonaut Canthus, as well as eponym of a mountain near Chalcis.[4]
  • Canethus, father of the bandit Sciron or Sinis by Henioche.[5] May or may not be the same as the above one.
  1. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  2. ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
  4. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.77 with scholia
  5. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 25.4