Corythus

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". Paris, discovering this, killed him, not recognizing his own son. Other versions state Oenone sent him 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]
  1. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.107
  2. ^ Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 3.167, 7.207 & 10.719
  3. ^ Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.23
  4. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 19th-century encyclopedia of classics.
  5. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290
  6. ^ Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 2 in Photius, Bibliotheca 190
  7. ^ Valerius Flaccus, 3.95
  8. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11
  9. ^ Conon, Narrations 23
  10. ^ Lycophron, Alexandra 61
  11. ^ Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 57
  12. ^ Parthenius, 34 from 2nd book of Hellanicus’ Troica and from the Trojan History of Cephalon of Gergitha
  13. ^ Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle