Car (Greek myth)

Car or Kar (Ancient Greek: Κάρ) is a name in Greek mythology that refers to two characters who may or may not be one and the same.[1]

• Car, king of Megara and son of Phoroneus by Cerdo.[2] His tomb was located on the road from Megara to Corinth.[3] From Car, the acropolis at Megara derived its name Caria[4] where the 'Chamber of Demeter' was said to have been built by him when he was the king of the land.[5]
• Car, king of Caria.[6]

Notes

1. Smith, p. 607. CAR (Καρ), a son of Phoroneus, and king of Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name Caria. (Paus. i. 39. § 4, 40. § 5). His tomb was shown as late as the time of Pausanias, on the road from Megara to Corinth, (i. 44. § 9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of Lydus and Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the Carians, is mentioned by Herodotus, (i. 171.) [L. S.]
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.39.5-6 & 1.44.6
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.44.6
4. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Karia
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.40.6
6. Herodotus, The Histories 1.171

References

• Herodotus, The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Greek text available at 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.
• 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.

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