Lacritus (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Lacritus (Ancient Greek: Λάκριτος) was the Boeotian father of the Argonaut Leitus and Clonius by Cleobule.[1] Otherwise, Leitus was called the son of Alector (Alectryon)[2] and Polybule[3] or simply he was an earth-born, thus a son of Gaea.[4] Meanwhile, in some accounts, Clonius' parents was/were (1) Alegenor,[2] or of (2) Alector and Acteis[3] instead.

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  2. ^ a b Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.67.7
  3. ^ a b Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 534–536. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  4. ^ Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 259