Pronous (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Pronous (Ancient Greek: Πρόνοος) was the name of the following characters:

• Pronous, son of Phegeus, king of Psophis. Along with his brother Agenorhe killed Alcmaeon (counted among the Epigoni), following his father's instructions. These brothers were thereafter killed by the sons of Alcmaeon (Amphoterus and Acarnan),[1][2] or perhaps by their own sister Arsinoe, wife of Alcmaeon.[3] Otherwise, Pausanias calls the two sons of Phegeus, Axion and Temenus.[4]
• Pronous, one of the suitors of Penelope from Ithaca.[5]
• Pronous, one of the Trojans. He was killed by Patroclus during the Trojan War.[6]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.7.6
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.24.10
3. Propertius, Elegies: Addressed to Cynthia, 1.15.23
4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.24.10
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.7.26 ff. & 7.33
6. Homer, Iliad 16.399

References

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. 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.
• Sextus Propertius, Elegies from Charm. Vincent Katz. trans. Los Angeles. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Latin text available at the same website.