Carystus (mythology)

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Carystus or Carystos (/kəˈrɪstəs/; Ancient Greek: Κάρυστος) or Carycus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Chiron and a nymph Chariclo, brother of Hippe, Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. Carystus was the father of Zarex,[1] and also, a certain Aristaeus. In another version of the myth, his son Petraeus was the father of Zarax instead.[2] The town of Carystus on Euboea took the name from him.[3]

  1. ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 580
  2. ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 373
  3. ^ Greek Lyric IV: Bacchylides, fr. 45 (from Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius); Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.181; Eustathius ad Homer, p. 281