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Linus (mythology) 
Summary
In Greek mythology, Linus (Ancient Greek: Λῖνος Linos "flax") may refer to the following personages:
Male
- Linus, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon, either by the naiad Cyllene,[1] Nonacris, or Pausanias. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into Zeus' meal, whereupon the enraged god threw the meal over the table. Linus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt cast by Zeus.[2]
- Apollodorus,[3]
- Linus, the great musician son of Apollo.[4]
- Linus, son of Apollo and Psamathe.[5]
- Linus, a soldier in the army of the Seven against Thebes. He was killed by Hypseus at Thebes.[6]
Female
Notes edit
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?.
- ^ Apollodorus. 3.8.1
- ^ Pausanias, 9.29.6; Hyginus, Fabulae 161
- ^ Pausanias, 1.43.7; Statius, Thebaid 570 ff.
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 9.254
- ^ Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 108 s.v. Tantalus
References edit
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. ISBN 978-0-241-98338-6, 024198338X
- 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.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Linus
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