Marathon (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Marathon (Ancient Greek: Μαραθῶνα) was a king of Corinth.

Family[]

Marathon was the son of King Epopeus of Sicyon and Antiope, Theban daughter of Nycteus.[1] He was the brother of Oenope[2] and father of Corinthus[3] and Sicyon.[4]

Mythology[]

Marathon escaped from the lawless violence of his father Epopeus and migrated to the sea coast of Attica. On his father's death, he came to Peloponnesus and divided his kingdom among his sons Corinthus and Sicyon and returned to Attica.[5]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.5
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  3. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.3.10
  4. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.5
  5. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.1.1

References[]

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.


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