Erythras

For the town of ancient Ionia, see Erythras (Ionia).

Erythras (/əˈrɪθrəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἐρύθραν) was a name attributed to three men in Greek mythology.

• Erythras, son of Poseidon and Amphimedusa, daughter of Danaus.^[1]
• Erythras, son of Leucon. One of the suitors of Hippodamia, killed by Oenomaus.^[2]
• Erythras, the Thespian son of Heracles and Exole,^[3] daughter of King Thespius of Thespiae.^[4] Cleolaus and his 49 half-brothers were born of Thespius' daughters who were impregnated by Heracles in one night,^[5] for a week^[6] or in the course of 50 days^[7] while hunting for the Cithaeronian lion.^[8] Later on, the hero sent a message to Thespius to keep seven of these sons and send three of them in Thebes while the remaining forty, joined by Iolaus, were dispatched to the island of Sardinia to found a colony.^[9]
• Erythras, a Persian by birth, son of Myozaeus.^[10]

Notes

1. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.499
2. Pausanias, 6.21.11
3. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
4. Apollodorus, 2.4.10
5. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
6. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
7. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
8. Apollodorus, 2.4.9–10
9. Apollodorus, 2.7.6
10. "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea".

References

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com