Rhoecus (mythology)

In ancient Greek mythology, Rhoecus (Ancient Greek: Ῥοῖκος, romanized: Rhoîkos) can refer to the following personages:

  • Rhoecus, a rich man from the Greek city of Cnidus who once saved a nymph and her tree from certain doom, but later lost the nymph's favour after disrespecting her bee messenger.[1][2]
  • Rhoecus, a centaur who along with his friend Hylaeus harassed the huntress Atalanta and insulted her archery skills.[3] Atalanta killed them both with her arrows.[4] In one version, they made an attempt on her at night, wielding makeshift pine torches that set fires to the woods she dwelled in.[5]

References

  1. ^ Scholia on Theocritus's Idylls 3.13c
  2. ^ Etymologicum Magnum s.v. ἀμαδρυάδες
  3. ^ Callimachus, Hymn III to Artemis 221
  4. ^ Apollodorus 3.9.2
  5. ^ Aelian, Varia Historia 13.1

Bibliography

  • Aelian, Various Histories, translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665, a text in the public domain, nobly digitized by the University of Chicago. Available online on Topos Text.
  • 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Callimachus, Hymns in Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921 . Available online on the Internet Archive.
  • Etymologicum Magnum, edited by Friedrich Sylburg. Lipsiae: Apud J.A.G. Weigel. 1816. Online text available at the Internet Archive.
  • Wendel, Carl (1914). Scholia in Theocritum vetera. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.
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