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Corythus

Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.Corythus, son of Marmarus, and one of the court of Cepheus. He wounded Pelates during the battle at the wedding feast of Perseus and Andromeda. Corythus, an Italian king and father, in some sources, of Iasion and Dardanus by Electra. Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by Rhoetus, one of the Centaurs. Corythus, an Iberian, beloved of Heracles. Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet, which took its name from him. Corythus, one of the Doliones. He was killed by Tydeus. Corythus, a king who raised Telephus, son of Heracles and Auge, as his own son. Corythus, son of Paris and the nymph Oenone. When he grew up, his mother sent him to cause trouble at Troy. Not recognizing his son, Paris killed him. Corythus, son of Paris and Helen. He died along with his two brothers when a roof collapsed in Troy.

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Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.

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  1. Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.107
  2. Servius on Virgil, Aeneid 3.167, 7.207 & 10.719
  3. Lactantius, Divine Institutes 1.23
  4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 19th-century encyclopedia of classics.
  5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.290
  6. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 2 in Photius, Bibliotheca 190
  7. Valerius Flaccus, 3.95
  8. Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11
  9. Lycophron. Alexandra 52–60.
  10. Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem 57.
  11. Conon, Narrations 23
  12. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle
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