Thersander

In Greek mythology, the name Thersander (/θɜːrˈsændər, -ˈsɑːn-/; Ancient Greek: Θέρσανδρος Thersandros means 'bold man' derived from θέρσος thersos 'boldness, braveness' and ανδρος andros 'of a man') refers to several distinct characters:

• Thersander or Thersandrus, a Corinthian prince as the son of King Sisyphus^[1] and the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the brother of Ornytion (Porphyrion^[2]), Glaucus and Almus.^[1] His sons were Haliartus and Coronus, eponyms of Haliartus and Coronea, respectively,^[3] and also Proetus, himself the father of Maera who was known to have died a maiden.^[4]
• Thersander, one of the Heracleidae, son of Agamedidas.He was a king of the Cleonaeans and his twin daughters Anaxandra and Lathria married the twin sons of Aristodemus, Procles and Eurysthenes.^[5]
• Thersander of Crete, father, by Arethusa, of a son Hyllus (not to be confused with the son of Heracles). Hyllus was killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War.^[6]
• Thersander, son of Polynices and one of the Epigoni, killed by Telephus.^[7]

Notes

1. Pausanias, 2.4.3
2. Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1094
3. Pausanias, 9.34.7; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Haliartos, Korōneia
4. Pausanias, 10.30.5
5. Pausanias, 3.16.6
6. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 10.30
7. Apollodorus, 3.7.2

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.