Molus (son of Ares)
Appearance
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In Greek mythology, Molus (/ˈmoʊləs/; Ancient Greek: Μῶλος Molos means 'toil and moil') was a member of the Aetolian royal family.
Family
[edit]Molus was the son of Ares and princess Demonice, daughter of King Agenor of Pleuron. He had three brothers namely: Evenus, Pylus and Thestius.[1] Molus was the father of Moline who mothered the Molionides by Actor of Elis.[2]
Mythology
[edit]Molus only appeared in Apollodorus, Bibliotheca where the scholar discussed the descendants of Aeolus, son of Hellen:
And Agenor, son of Pleuron, married Epicaste, daughter of Calydon, and begat Porthaon and Demonice, who had Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius by Ares.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.7; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Thestius.
- ^ Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 537. ISBN 9780241983386.
References
[edit]- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 14, Sym-Tub, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2009. ISBN 978-90-04-14219-0. Online version at Brill.
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. ISBN 978-0-241-98338-6, 024198338X