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In Greek mythology, the name Coronus (Ancient Greek: Κόρωνος means "crooked, curved") may refer to: Coronus, king of the Lapiths, the son of Caeneus and counted among the Argonauts. [1] In some accounts his father was Actor. [2] His own children were Leonteus [3] and Lysidice. [4] He led a war against King Aegimius and was killed by ...
Caeneus' son was the Argonaut Coronus, who was killed by Heracles while leading a war against the Dorians and their king Aegimius. [4] According to the mythographer Hyginus, Caeneus' mother was Hippea—the daughter of a Thessalian from Larissa named Antippus—and his brothers were Ischys and the Argonaut Polyphemus.
Cronus ruled harshly and Cronus in turn was defeated by Ammon's son Dionysus (3.71.3–3.73) who appointed Cronus's and Rhea's son, Zeus, as king of Egypt (3.73.4). Dionysus and Zeus then joined their forces to defeat the remaining Titans in Crete, and on the death of Dionysus, Zeus inherited all the kingdoms, becoming lord of the world (3.73.7 ...
Midas, a king of Phrygia granted the power to turn anything to gold with a touch; Minos, a king of Crete; after his death, became one of the judges of the dead in the Underworld; Myles, a king of Laconia; Nestor, a king of Pylos who sailed with the Argonauts, participated in the Calydonian boar hunt and fought with the Greek armies in the ...
The Lapiths were an Aeolian tribe who, like the Myrmidons, were natives of Thessaly.The genealogies make them a kindred people with the centaurs: In one version, Lapithes (Λαπίθης) and Centaurus (Κένταυρος) were said to be twin sons of the god Apollo and the nymph Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus.
Coronus (Greek mythology), the name attributed to several Greek mythological figures Coronus, a deity of the Lusitanian mythology , in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal)
There King Lycus received them kindly, grateful because they had killed Amycus, who had often attacked him. While the Argonauts were staying with Lycus and went out to gather straw, the seer Idmon, son of Apollo, was wounded by a wild boar and died. Also, on that island Tiphys died, and Ancaeus undertook to steer the ship. [49]
Articles relating to the Argonauts, a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, Argo . Subcategories