Socus

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In Greek mythology, the name Socus (Ancient Greek: Σῶκος) may refer to the following personages:

  • Socus of Euboea, father of the seven Corybantes (, , Acmon, , , , Melisseus) by Combe. He expelled his wife and sons from the island, and was ultimately killed by Cecrops, in whose kingdom the Corybantes sought refuge.[1] His name is also mentioned by Hesychius of Alexandria in the form Sochus (Σωχός).
  • Socus, a defender of Troy, son of Hippasus and brother of Charops. The brothers were killed by Odysseus.[2]
  • Socus, an epithet of Hermes[3] of obscure etymology. According to a scholiast on the Homeric line where the epithet appears, there was an adjective σῶκος which meant "strong". The ancient authors linked the epithet to the Greek stem σω- < σαο- "whole, safe".[4] Despite the attempts of modern scholars to elaborate on this etymological suggestion, no satisfactory explanation has been provided as of 1977.[5]

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Notes[]

  1. ^ Nonnus, 13.135 ff.
  2. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.428–456; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.444
  3. ^ Homer, Iliad 20.72
  4. ^ Realencyclopädie s. 803; Roscher s. 1136
  5. ^ Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots. Tome IV-1 (Ρ - Υ). Paris, Éditions Klincksiek, 1977. - p. 1083

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. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theoi.com
  • Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 803 u. Sokos
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Band IV (Q - S), Hildesheim, 1965, ss. 1136 - 1137 u. Sokos


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