Taenarus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Taenarus (Ταίναρος) was the eponym of Cape Taenarum, Mount Taenarum and the city Taenarus at Peloponnese. In different accounts, he is given as:

A son of Zeus and brother of Calabrus and Geraestus. The three brothers were said to have sailed to Peloponnese and to have seized a portion of land there, where Taenarus founded a sanctuary of Poseidon known as "Taenarum".^[1]
A son of Poseidon.^[2]
Son of Elatus, himself son of Icarius, and Erymede, daughter of Damasiclus; was said to have had the city, the mountain, and the harbor named after him.^[3] Stephanus (who writes of him as a son rather than a grandson of Icarius) considers him to be a figure distinct from Taenarus, son of Zeus.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Tainaros
^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 179
^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 102, also quoted in Stephanus of Byzantium