Atymnius

A son of Zeus and Cassiopeia, a beautiful boy, who was beloved by Sarpedon.1 Others call him a son of Phoenix.2 He seems to have been worshiped at Gortyn in Crete together with Europa.3

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 1.2.
  2. Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius ii, 178.
  3. Llöck. Crete i, 105.

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.