Hodoedocus

In Greek mythology, Hodoedocus or Hodedocus (/həˈdɛdəkəs/; Ancient Greek: Ὁδοίδοκος) was a son of Cynus and grandson of Opus.^[1] His father and sister, Larymna, were eponyms of the cities Kynos in Locris and Larymna in Boeotia respectively.^[2]

Hodoedocus was the father of Oileus by Agrianome, daughter of Perseon,^[3] and of Calliarus by Laonome.^[4]

Notes

1. Eustathius on Homer, p. 227
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.23.7
3. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 2.640; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
4. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Kalliaros

References

• 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.
• 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.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.