Cleitus (mythology)

Not to be confused with Clytus (mythology).

In Greek mythology, Cleitus or Clitus (/ˈklaɪtəs/; Ancient Greek: Κλεῖτος or Κλειτός Kleitos meaning "renowned, famous", from kleos) may refer to:

• Cleitus, an Egyptian prince as one of the 50 sons of King Aegyptus.^[1] His mother was a Tyria and thus full brother of Sthenelus and Chrysippus. In some accounts, he could be a son of Aegyptus either by Eurryroe, daughter of the river-god Nilus,^[2] or Isaie, daughter of King Agenor of Tyre.^[3] Clitus suffered the same fate as his other brothers, save Lynceus, when they were slain on their wedding night by their wives who obeyed the command of their father King Danaus of Libya. He married the Danaid Clite, daughter of Danaus and Memphis.^[1]
• Cleitus, son of Mantius, who was abducted by Eos because of his beauty. After his death, he was placed among other immortals. He was the father of Coeranus and grandfather of Polyeidos.^[4]
• Cleitus, son of Polyeidos, thus great-grandson of the precedent.^[5]
• Cleitus, suitor of Pallene, daughter of Sithon of Thrace. He eventually won Pallene's hand and inherited Sithon's kingdom.^[6]
• Cleitus, a Sithonian king whose daughter Chrysonoe or Torone married Proteus.^[7]
• Cleitus, a minstrel at the court of Priamus.^[8]
• Cleitus, a Trojan, son of Peisenor, friend of Polydamas, killed by Teucer.^[9]
• Cleitus, another Trojan, son of Agamestor and a nymph, killed by Podalirius.^[10]

Notes

1. Smith, s.v. Cleitus 1; Apollodorus, 2.1.5
2. Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.37, p. 368-369
3. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Notes on Book 3.1689
4. Smith, s.v. Cleitus 2; Homer, Odyssey 15.249; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.566d; Pherecydes in scholia on Homer, Iliad 13.663
5. Pherecydes in scholia on Iliad 13.663
6. Smith, s.v. Cleitus 4; Parthenius, 6 from Theagenes and the Palleniaca of Hegesippus; Conon, Narrationes 10
7. Smith, s.v. Cleitus 5; Conon, Narrationes 32
8. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 24.720
9. Smith, s.v. Cleitus 3; Homer, Iliad 15.445
10. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.465

References

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• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• 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. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book VII-VIII translated by Vasiliki Dogani from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com