Clytius

Clytius (Greek: Κλυτίος, also spelled Klythios, Klytios, Clytios, and Klytius) is the name of many people in Greek mythology:

1. A son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy.^[1]
2. A young soldier in the army of Turnus who is loved by Cydon in Virgil's Aeneid, and was killed by Aeneas. ^[2]
3. One of the Gigantes killed by Hecate in the battle of the gods.^[3]
4. A man who attended Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey.^[4]
5. One of the sons of Aeolus who followed Aeneas into Italy and was killed by Turnus is also named Clytius in the Aeneid.^[5]
6. An Argonaut, son of Eurytus, killed by Apollo for challenging him to an archery match.

References

1. ^ Homer. Iliad, 3.148.
2. ^ Virgil. Aeneid, 10, v. 325.
3. ^ Imrė Trenčeni-Valdapfelis (1972). „Mitologija“.
4. ^ Homer. Odyssey, 16.327.
5. ^ Virgil. Aeneid, 9, v.744.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary.

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