Clytius

Clytius

Clytius

Set of mythological Greek characters


Clytius (Ancient Greek: Κλυτίος), also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius, is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology:

To these can be added several figures not mentioned in extant literary sources and only known from various vase paintings:[31][32]

  • Clytius, a companion of Peleus present at the wrestling match between Peleus and Atalanta.
  • Clytius, an arms-bearer of Tydeus present at the scene of murder of Ismene, on a vase from Corinth.
  • Clytius, a barbarian-looking participant of a boar hunt, possibly the Calydonian hunt, on the Petersburg vase #1790.
  • Clytius, a man standing in front of the enthroned Hygieia, on a vase by the Meidias Painter.
  • Clytius, an epithet of Apollo, in an inscription.

Notes

  1. Imrė Trenčeni-Valdapfelis (1972). „Mitologija“.
  2. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 18.483
  3. Pausanias, 2.6.5–6
  4. Nonnus, 28.66 & 92
  5. Scholaist on Sophocles, Trachiniae 266 as cited in Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, The Taking of Oechalia fr. 4
  6. Apollonius Rhodius, 1.86 (with scholia) & 1044; 2.117 & 1043
  7. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  8. Homer, Iliad 3.148 & 20.238
  9. Tzetzes, Homerica 437
  10. Homer, Iliad 15.419
  11. Pausanias, 10.14.2
  12. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 12.211
  13. Pausanias, 6.17.6
  14. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.27
  15. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.28
  16. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
  17. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
  18. Homer, Odyssey 16.327 & 15.540
  19. Homer, Iliad 11.302
  20. Virgil, Aeneid 9.744
  21. Virgil, Aeneid 11.666
  22. Virgil, Aeneid 10.325
  23. Virgil, Aeneid 10. 129 with Servius' commentary
  24. Roscher, s. 1248
  25. Realencyclopädie, s. 896 with further references therein

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