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Eioneus 
Summary
In Greek mythology, Eioneus (Ancient Greek: Ἠιονεύς) is a name attributed to the following individuals:
- Eioneus, the Perrhaebian[1] father of Dia,[2][3] see Deioneus.
- Eioneus, son of Magnes and Philodice[4] and one of the suitors of Hippodamia. He, like all of the other suitors before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus.[5]
- Eioneus, son of Proteus, father of the Phrygian king Dymas.[6][7]
- Eioneus, the presumed mythological eponym of the Thracian city of Eion. This character was the father of Rhesus, according to Homer.[8] One source[9] identifies him with Strymon, who was more commonly known as father of Rhesus.
- Eioneus, a Greek warrior in the Trojan War who was killed by Hector using a sharp spear which smote his neck.[10]
- Eioneus or Eion, a Trojan warrior who was killed by Neoptolemus.[11]
See also edit
- Naming citation for Jovian asteroid 15440 Eioneus
Notes edit
- ^ Nonnus, 7.125
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.3
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.62
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 1760
- ^ Pausanias, 6.21.11
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3
- ^ Pherecydes fr. 136 (Fowler 2013, p. 42)
- ^ Homer, Iliad 10.435
- ^ Conon, Narrations 4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 7.11
- ^ Pausanias, 10.27.1
References edit
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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