Andreus

In Greek mythology, Andreus (/ˈændriəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρεύς) may refer to two distinct individuals:

  • Andreus, son of the river-god Peneus in Thessaly, from whom the district about Orchomenos in Boeotia was called Andreis.[1] With Evippe, daughter of Leucon, Andreus had a son Eteocles, his successor.[2]
  • Andreus, in another passage Pausanias speaks of Andreus (it is, however, uncertain whether he means the same man as the former) as the person who first colonized the island of Andros.[3] According to Diodorus Siculus, Andreus was one of the generals of Rhadamanthys, from whom he received the island afterwards called Andros as a present.[4] Stephanus of Byzantium,[5] Conon[6] and Ovid[7] call this first colonizer "Andrus" (son of Anius) and not Andreus.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, 9.34.6
  2. ^ Pausanias, 9.34.9–35.1
  3. ^ Pausanias, 10.13.4
  4. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.79.2
  5. ^ Suda s.v. Andros
  6. ^ Conon, Narrations 41
  7. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.639
  8. ^ "Myth Index - Andreus". Archived from the original on 2010-12-16. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

References

  • Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
  • Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Andreus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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