Xanthus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Xanthus or Xanthos (/ˈzænθəs/; Ancient Greek: Ξάνθος "yellow" or "fair hair") may refer to:

• Divine
  • Xanthus, the gods' name for Scamander, the great river of Troy and its patron god.[1]
  • Xanthus, one of the twelve sons of the god Pan who were allied with Dionysus.[2]
• Human
  • Xanthus, an Argive prince and son of Triopas and Oreasis.[3]
  • Xanthus, a Trojan warrior and son of Phaenops. Together with his twin brother Thoon, they were killed by Diomedes during the Trojan War.[4]
  • Xanthos (King of Thebes), the son of Ptolemy, killed by Andropompus or Melanthus.[5][6]
  • Xanthus, a son of Aegyptus who was killed by the Danaid Arcadia.[7]
  • Xanthus, one of the Niobids.[8]
  • Xanthus, lover of Alcinoe, who left her family to be with him.[9]
  • Xanthus, son of Erymanthus and father of Psophis.[10]
  • Xanthus, husband of Herippe.[11]
  • Xanthus, one of the four sons of Tremiles and Praxidike.[12]
  • Xanthus, husband of Laodamia, daughter of Bellerophon and by her father of Sarpedon who fought in the Trojan War.[13]
  • Xanthus, father of Glaucippe, possible mother of Hecuba.[14] He may be the same as the above river-god Xanthus (Scamander).
• Equine
  • Xanthus, one of Achilles' two horses; see Balius and Xanthus.[15][16][17][18]
  • Xanthus, one of Hector's horses.[19]
  • Xanthus, one of the Mares of Diomedes.[20]

Notes

1. Homer, Iliad 20.74, 21.146.
2. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.67 ff.
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 145
4. Homer, Iliad 5.152 ff.
5. Strabo, Geographica 9.1.7
6. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.5.16
7. Hyginus, Fabulae 170
8. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 159
9. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 27
10. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.24.1
11. Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 8
12. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Tlōs; Tremilē (quoting a poem by Panyassis)
13. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 2.11
14. Scholia on Euripides, Hecuba 3
15. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.13.5
16. Euripides, Rhesus 164
17. Homer, Iliad 16.150 & 19.405 ff
18. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 3.755 ff
19. Homer, Iliad 8.185
20. Hyginus, Fabulae 30

References

• Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Euripides, The Rhesus of Euripides translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt., F.B.A., Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford. Euripides. Gilbert Murray. New York. Oxford University Press. 1913. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940–1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.