Proetus

In Greek mythology, Proetus (Template:IPAc-en; Ancient Greek: Προῖτος Proitos) may refer to the following personages:

• Proetus, king of Argos and Tiryns, son of Abas and twin brother of Acrisius.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.4.1</ref>
• Proetus, a prince of Corinth as the son of Prince Thersander, son of King Sisyphus. He was the father of Maera who died a maiden.<ref>Pausanias, 10.30.5</ref> Scholiasts on the Odyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus.<ref>Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.325</ref>
• Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates,<ref>Pausanias, 9.8.4</ref> and father of Galanthis.<ref>Antoninus Liberalis, 29</ref>
• Proetus of Nauplia, a son of Nauplius I and father of Lernus.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 1.136; Scholia ad 4.1091</ref>
• Proetus, a son of Agenor (?). It is unclear whether Stephanus<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thasos</ref> is referring to a son of Agenor named Proetus, or to the Argive Proetus as a descendant of Agenor.

References

• Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. 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.