Car (mythology)

Car or Kar (Ancient Greek: Κάρ) is a name in Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.^[1]

Car, king of Megara and son of Phoroneus by Cerdo.^[2] His tomb was located on the road from Megara to Corinth.^[3] From Car, the acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria^[4] where the 'Chamber of Demeter' was said to have been built by him when he was the king of the land.^[5]
Car, king of Caria.^[6]

^ Smith, p. 607. CAR (Καρ), a son of Phoroneus, and king of Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name Caria. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, 40. § 5). His tomb was shown as late as the time of Pausanias, on the road from Megara to Corinth, (i. 44. § 9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of Lydus and Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the Carians, is mentioned by Herodotus, (i. 171.) [L. S.]
^ Pausanias, 1.39.5–6 & 1.44.6
^ Pausanias, 1.44.6
^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Karia (Καρία)
^ Pausanias, 1.40.6
^ Herodotus, 1.171