Cometes

In Greek mythology, Cometes (Ancient Greek: Κομήτης) may refer to the following figures:

Cometes, son of Thestius and brother of Prothous and Althaea.[1]
Cometes, father of Asterius, one of the Argonauts.[2] His wife could be Antigona (daughter of Pheres) who was called mother of Asterius.[3]
Cometes_, one of the Lapiths attending Pirithous' wedding. He was killed by Charaxus, his friend, accidentally.[4]
Cometes, was the lover of Aegialia, wife of Diomedes, when the latter was fighting at Troy. Cometes was son of Sthenelus, son of Capaneus, son of Hipponous.[5]
Cometes, was the first among the sons of Tisamenus to sail to Asia. It was under the reign of Tisamenus, son of Orestes, that the Heracleidae returned to the Peloponnesus.[6]

References

Pausanias. Description of Greece 8.45.7
Apollodorus. Bibliotheca Book 1.9.16; Apollonius of Rhodes. Argonautica Book 1.20ff
Hyg.Fab.14
Ovid. Metamorphoses 12.284
Apollodorus. Epitome 6.10
Pausanias. Description of Greece 7.6.2

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