In Greek mythology, Deioneus (; Ancient Greek: Δηιονεύς means "ravager"[1]) or Deion (; Ancient Greek: Δηίων) is a name attributed to the following individuals:
- Deioneus, king of Phocis and son of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus.[2] He was the brother of Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Cretheus, Perieres, Athamas, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice and Perimede. By Diomede, Deioneus became the father of Cephalus,[3] Actor, Aenetus, Phylacus, Asterodia[4] and Philonis.[5] After the death of his brother, Salmoneus, Deioneus took his daughter Tyro into his house, and gave her in marriage to Cretheus.[6]
- Deioneus, the Perrhaebian[7] father of Dia[8] and father-in-law-to-be of Ixion, Deioneus was pushed by him into a bed of flaming coals so that Ixion wouldn't have to pay the bride price.[9] Also known as Eioneus.
- Deion, father of Nisus, king of Megara.[10] Otherwise, the latter was called the son of Pandion II[11] or Ares.[12]
- Deioneus, an Oeachalian prince as son of King Eurytus and Antiope[13] or Antioche,[14] and thus brother to Iole, Toxeus, Clytius, Didaeon and Iphitos. He married Perigune, daughter of Sinis, whose father was killed by Theseus.[15]
- Deioneus, one of the sons of Heracles and Megara.[16]
- ^ Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 63 s.v. Ixion
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.3
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 48, 189, 241 & 273; Pausanias, 10.29.6
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a) & 58; Apollodorus, 1.9.4; Hard, pp. 435, 565
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 64.15–18
- ^ Smith, William. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology s.v. Deion
- ^ Nonnus, 7.125
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 155
- ^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 2.39
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 198
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.5
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 16.393 & 16.9; Hyginus, Fabulae 198 & 242
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.86
- ^ Scholaist on Sophocles' Trachiniae 266 as cited in Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, The Taking of Oechalia fr. 4
- ^ Plutarch, Theseus 8
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.61