Ornytion

In Greek mythology, Ornytion (Ancient Greek: Ὀρνύτιων means 'moon-bird'^[1]) or Ornytus (Ὄρνυτος)^[2] may refer to two different characters:

• Ornytion, son of Sisyphus, brother of Glaucus, Almus and Thersander, and father of Phocus and Thoas.^[3] A scholiast on Euripides relates of him that he came from Aonia to join the people of Hyampolis in the battle against the Opuntian Locrians over Daphnus and won himself the kingdom, which he handed over to Phocus and returned to Corinth with his other son Thoas, who later succeeded him.^[4]
• Ornytion, son of Phocus and thus grandson of the former above Ornytion. He was the father of Naubolus.^[5]

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• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. 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. 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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