Erythrus

Besides Erythrus, son of Leucon, and Erythrus, son of Rhadamanthys, there are two other mythical personages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Erythraean Sea, are said to have received their names respectively.

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References

Sources

  • Curtius, viii, 9.
  • Eustathius on Homer, p. 267.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἐρυθρά.

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