Cretheus

A son of Aeolus and Enarete, was married to Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus, by whom he became the father of Aeson, Pheres, Amythaon, and Hippolyte. He is called the founder of the town of Iolcus.

According to another tradition, Cretheus was married to Demodice or Biadice, who loved Phrixus, and as her love was rejected by the latter, she calumniously accused him to Cretheus of having been guilty of improper conduct.1

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References

Notes

  1. Hyginus. Poetical Astronomy, ii, 20

Sources

  • Homer. Odyssey xii, 236, 258.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.11; comp. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 25.5.
  • 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.