Adrastus (mythology)
Adrastus (Greek: Ἄδραστος, Ionic Adrestus Ἄδρηστος) refers to several individuals in Greek mythology:
- Adrastus, king of Argos.
- Adrastus, a son of Merops, the king of Percote, and brother to Amphius. Along with Amphius, he led a military force from Adrastea, Apaesus, Pityeia and Tereia to the Trojan War (despite the entreaties of their father, a seer, who could foresee that death awaited them on the battlefield). Adrastus was slain by Diomedes[1].
- Adrastus, father of Eurydice, the wife of King Ilus of Troy[2]. He is otherwise unknown, but the Hellespont town or city of Adrastea may be named after him.
- Adrastus, son of Polynices and Argea, daughter of Adrastus. He was a leader of the Mycenaeans during the Trojan War and was also counted as one of the Epigoni[3][4].
- Adrastus and Hipponous, two otherwise unknown sons of Heracles, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo[5].
See also
References
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 2. 828; 11. 328
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 12. 3
- ^ Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, 268
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 20. 5
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 242