Clytius

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

• Clytius, one of the Giants, sons of Gaia, killed by Hecate during the Gigantomachy, the battle of the Giants versus the Olympian gods.^[1][2]
• Clytius, an alternate name for Clytoneus, the son of Naubolus of Argos and father of Nauplius II.^[3]
• Clytius, son of Agriopas and grandson of Cyclops. He fought in the war between Eumolpus and Eleusis and fell alongside Eumolpus' son Immaradus and Egremus, son of Eurynomus.^[4]
• Clytius, an Athenian, father of Pheno who married Lamedon. Ianiscus, descendant of this Clytius, became king in Sicyon after Adrastus.^[5]
• Clytius, a man killed by Perseus in the battle against Phineus.^[6]
• Clytius, a warrior in the army of Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign. He was killed by Corymbasus.^[7]
• Clytius, an Argonaut, son of Eurytus of Oechalia and Antiope, brother of Iphitos.^[8] According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt;^[9] according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.^[10]
• Clytius, in a rare version of the myth, a son of Phineus and brother of Polymedes: the two brothers killed Phineus' second, Phrygian, wife (Idaea?) at the instigation of Cleopatra.^[11]
• Clytius, a son of Laomedon, brother of Priam, and an elder of Troy.^[12] By Laothoe,^[13] he was the father of Caletor,^[14] Procleia^[15] and Pronoe or Pronome, of whom the latter was the mother of Polydamas by Panthous.^[16]
• Clytius, a son of Alcmaeon and Arsinoe/Alphesiboea. He moved from Psophis to Elis in order to escape his mother's vengeful brothers. The Clytidae, a clan of soothsayers, claimed descent from him.^[17] According to Stephanus of Byzantium, his mother was Triphyle, the eponym of Triphylia.^[18]
• Clytius, each of the three namesakes among the suitors of Penelope: one from Dulichium, another from Same, and the third from Zacynthus.^[19]
• Clytius, an attendant of Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey, the father of Telemachus' friend Peiraeus.^[20] Dolops, a Greek warrior killed by Hector in the Iliad, could also have been his son.^[21]
• Clytius, one of the sons of Aeolus who followed Aeneas to Italy and was killed by Turnus.^[22]
• Clytius, father of Euneus (one of those killed in the battle between Aeneas and Turnus).^[23]
• Clytius, a young soldier in the army of Turnus who was loved by Cydon in Virgil's Aeneid, and was killed by Aeneas.^[24]
• Clytius, father of Acmon and Menestheus from Lyrnessus, Phrygia.^[25]

To these can be added several figures not mentioned in extant literary sources and only known from various vase paintings:^[26][27]

• Clytius, a companion of Peleus present at the wrestling match between Peleus and Atalanta
• Clytius, an arms-bearer of Tydeus present at the scene of murder of Ismene, on a vase from Corinth
• Clytius, a barbarian-looking participant of a boar hunt, possibly the Calydonian hunt, on the Petersburg vase #1790
• Clytius, a man standing in front of the enthroned Hygieia, on a vase by the Meidias Painter
• Clytius, an epithet of Apollo, in an inscription

References

Sources

• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary.
• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. Band 2.1 (I-K), Leipzig, 1890-1894, ss. 1247 - 1248
• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XI, Halbband 21, Katoikoi-Komödie (1921), ss. 895 - 896