Cleochus

In Greek mythology, Cleochus (Ancient Greek: Κλεόχου or Κλέοχον) was the name shared by two individuals:

• Cleochus, the Cretan father of the nymph Aria, mother of Miletus by Apollo.[1] When Areia gave birth to her son she hid him in a bed of smilax, Cleochus found the child there and named him Miletus after the plant.[2] Clement of Alexandria quotes Leandrios saying that Cleochus was buried within the temple enclosure of Didyma in Miletus.[3]
• Cleochos, one of the followers of Dionysus in the Indian War against the Indian king Deriades.[4]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.1.2
2. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.185
3. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortations 3.45.2-3
4. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 40.227

References

• 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.
• Pseudo-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
• Titus Flavius Clemens, Exhortation against the Pagans translated by Butterworth, G W. Loeb Classical Library Volume 92. Cambridge, MA. Harvard Universrity Press. 1919. Online version at theio.com