Thersanon
In Greek mythology, Thersanon is one of the Argonauts. Born in the island of Andros, Thersanon was the son of the sun god Helios and Leucothoe;[note 1] he joined Jason and the other Argonauts in the quest for the golden fleece, kept by King Aeëtes of Colchis, one of Thersanon's paternal half-brothers.[6]
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- ^ Hyginus names Leucothoe as his mother; according to Ovid, Leucothoe was a mortal princess of Babylon that Helios fell in love with; but when her father discovered the affair thanks to Clytie, he buried Leucothoe alive, and afterwards her dead body was turned into a frankincense tree by Helios.[1][2][3] Hyginus assigning them a son might indicate that he knew a very different version of the myth, or perhaps he refers to another woman, such as the sea goddess Leucothea, whom he elsewhere refers to as "Leucothoe" in the same work.[4][5]
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- Ovid. Metamorphoses, Volume I: Books 1-8. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 42. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977, first published 1916. ISBN 978-0-674-99046-3
- Hyginus, Gaius Julius, The Myths of Hyginus. Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
- Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Google Books.
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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