Galaxy/The codex of Coronus

In Greek mythology, Coronus (Ancient Greek Κόρωνος) of Gyrton is the Lapith king, son of Caeneus (or in some accounts Actor), counted among the Argonauts and father of Leonteus. Homer sets him in the Catalogue of Ships stemma; Apollodorus and Hyginus put him on Jason's crew; he later wars on Aegimius and falls to Heracles.

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I.Lapith Argonaut

Homer (Iliad 2.735–746) makes Leonteus son of Coronus son of Caeneus among the Lapith captains from Argissa and Gyrtone. Hyginus (Fabulae 14) and Apollodorus (1.9.16) number Coronus son of Caeneus from Gyrton among the Argonauts. Apollodorus (2.7.7) and Diodorus have him slain by Heracles while leading war against Aegimius.

Bibliotheca 1.9.16 also lists a Caeneus son of Coronus from Gortyn — the atlas keeps that thinner Argonaut as caeneus-gortyn, distinct from the famous Lapith caeneus-lapith who is this Coronus' father.

II.Homonym care

Wikipedia's Coronus page lists a Sicyonian son of Apollo, a Corinthian founder of Coroneia, and minor fathers. The atlas id coronus-gyrton is the Lapith of Gyrton alone.

AT A GLANCE

Greek nameKoronos (Κόρωνος)
Typehero
DomainsGyrton in Thessaly · father of Leonteus · the Argonaut voyage
ParentageCaeneus
SymbolsLapith kingship · Argonaut voyage · Father of Leonteus
Cult centersGyrton (Thessaly)
EtymologyAncient Greek Κόρωνος (Korōnos), "crooked, curved."
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