Atrax

A son of Peneus and Bura, from whom the town of Atrax in Hestiaeotis was believed to have derived its name.1 He was the father of Hippodamia and Caenis, the latter of whom by the will of Poseidon was changed into a man, and named Caenus.2

Caenis is also mentioned as the daughter of Elatus, a Magnesian.

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.
  2. Antoninus Liberalis, 17; Ovid. Metamorphoses xii, 190 ff.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.