Clytius

Clytius (Greek: Κλυτίος, also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius) is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology:

1. A son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy.^[1] By Laothoe,^[2] he was the father of Caletor,^[3] Procleia^[4] and Pronoe or Pronome, of whom the latter was the mother of Polydamas by Panthous.^[5]
2. A young soldier in the army of Turnus who was loved by Cydon in Virgil's Aeneid, and was killed by Aeneas.^[6]
3. One one of the Giants, sons of Gaia, killed by Hecate during the Gigantomachy, the battle of the Giants versus the Olympian gods.^[7][8]
4. An attendant of Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey, the father of Telemachus' friend Peiraeus.^[9] Dolops, a Greek warrior killed by Hector in the Iliad, could also have been his son.^[10]
5. One of the sons of Aeolus who followed Aeneas to Italy and was killed by Turnus.^[11]
6. Father of Acmon and Menestheus from Lyrnessus, Phrygia.^[12]
7. Father of Euneus (one of those killed in the battle between Aeneas and Turnus).^[13]
8. An Argonaut, son of Eurytus of Oechalia and Antiope, brother of Iphitos.^[14] According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt;^[15] according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.^[16]
9. A son of Alcmaeon and Arsinoe/Alphesiboea. He moved from Psophis to Elis in order to escape his mother's vengeful brothers. The Clytidae, a clan of soothsayers, claimed descent from him.^[17] According to Stephanus of Byzantium, his mother was Triphyle, the eponym of Triphylia.^[18]
10. An Athenian, father of Pheno who married Lamedon. Ianiscus, descendant of this Clytius, became king in Sicyon after Adrastus.^[19]
11. Each of the three namesakes among the suitors of Penelope: one from Dulichium, another from Same, and the third from Zacynthus.^[20]
12. A man killed by Perseus in the battle against Phineus.^[21]
13. A warrior in the army of Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign. He was killed by Corymbasus.^[22]
14. Son of Agriopas and grandson of Cyclops. He fought in the war between Eumolpus and Eleusis and fell alongside Eumolpus' son Immaradus and Egremus, son of Eurynomus.^[23]
15. In a rare version of the myth, a son of Phineus and brother of Polymedes: the two brothers killed Phineus' second, Phrygian, wife (Idaea?) at the instigation of Cleopatra.^[24]
16. An alternate name for Clytoneus, the son of Naubolus of Argos and father of Nauplius II.^[25]

To these can be added several figures not mentioned in extant literary sources and only known from various vase paintings:^[26][27]

1. A companion of Peleus present at the wrestling match between Peleus and Atalanta
2. An arms-bearer of Tydeus present at the scene of murder of Ismene, on a vase from Corinth
3. A barbarian-looking participant of a boar hunt, possibly the Calydonian hunt, on the Petersburg vase #1790
4. A man standing in front of the enthroned Hygieia, on a vase by the Meidias Painter
5. An epithet of Apollo, in an inscription

References

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary.
• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 2.1 (I-K), Leipzig, 1890-1894, ss. 1247 - 1248
• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XI, Halbband 21, Katoikoi-Komödie (1921), ss. 895 - 896