Prothous

In Greek mythology, Prothous (Πρόθοος) may refer to:

• Prothous, son of Tenthredon and either Eurymache or Cleobule the daughter of Eurytus, commander of the Magnetes who dwelt around mount Pelion and the river Peneus, was one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War; he brought forty ships to Troy.[1][2][3][4][5] According to one version, Prothous, together with Meges and a number of others, died as a result of a shipwreck near Cape Caphereus of Euboea;[6] in another version, Prothous, Eurypylus and Guneus ended up in Libya and settled there.[7]
• Prothous, son of the Aetolian Agrius, killed by Diomedes.[8]
• Prothous, son of Lycaon of Arcadia.[9]
• Prothous, son of Thestius and brother of Althaea.[10] He was one of the Calydonian Boar Hunters.
• Prothous, one of the suitors of Penelope, from Same.[11]
• Prothous of Argos, a warrior in the army of the Seven against Thebes. He cast lots to assign places in the chariot race at the funeral games of Opheltes.[12]
• Prothous, a defender of Thebes against the Seven, killed by Tydeus.[13]

Notes

1. Homer, Iliad 2.758
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
3. Conon, Narrations 29
4. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 1.17
5. Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 634–636
6. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 902
7. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 899
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.6
9. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1
10. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.45.6, who calls him Πρόθους instead of Πρόθοος
11. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.7.28
12. Statius, Thebaid 6.389
13. Statius, Thebaid 8.540

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.
• Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Papinius Statius, The Thebaid. Vol I-II. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.