Zarex
Zarex (Ancient Greek: Ζάρηξ) or Zarax (Ζάραξ) is the name of a hero of ancient Greek mythology, son of Carystus (Carycus) or by the latter's son Petraeus.[1]
Family
[edit]Zarex married Rhoeo, and became the father of Anius and four other children.[2] In some accounts, Zarex adopted his wife's son, Anius, who was raised by his divine father Apollo.
Mythology
[edit]Zarex was credited with having learned the music of Apollo, and having founded the town of Zarex in Laconia; he also had a heroon at Eleusis, next to that of Hippothoon.[3] There also was a mountain on Euboea thought to be named after him.[4]
Pausanias wrote that there may was also another Zarex, an Athenian hero, but he had nothing to say concerning him.[3]
See also
[edit]- Naming citation for Jovian asteroid 18060 Zarex
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.
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