Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.
- Corythus, son of Marmarus, and one of the court of Cepheus. He wounded Pelates during the battle at the wedding feast of Perseus and Andromeda.[1]
- Corythus, an Italian king and father, in some sources, of Iasion[2] and Dardanus[3] by Electra.[4]
- Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by Rhoetus, one of the Centaurs.[5]
- Corythus, an Iberian, beloved of Heracles. Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet (Greek korys, gen. korythos), which took its name from him.[6]
- Corythus, one of the Doliones. He was killed by Tydeus.[7]
- Corythus, a king who raised Telephus, son of Heracles and Auge, as his own son.[8]
- Corythus, son of Paris and the nymph Oenone. After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy - now grown - to Troy, to incite jealousy in his father and to plot "something bad" against Paris' second wife.[9] He fell in love with her, and she "received him warmly". Upon discovering this, Paris killed him – unable to recognise his own son. Other versions state Oenone sent Corythus to guide the Achaean armies to Troy.[10][11] Corythus was alternatively said to be the son of Helen and Paris,[12] who died along with his two brothers when a roof collapsed in Troy.[13]
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.107
- ^ Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 3.167, 7.207 & 10.719
- ^ Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.23
- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 19th-century encyclopedia of classics.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290
- ^ Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 2 in Photius, Bibliotheca 190
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 3.95
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11
- ^ Conon, Narrations 23
- ^ Lycophron, Alexandra 61
- ^ Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 57
- ^ Parthenius, 34 from 2nd book of Hellanicus’ Troica and from the Trojan History of Cephalon of Gergitha
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle