Adrastus (mythology)

Adrastus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος; Ionic: Adrestus Ἄδρηστος means "inescapable") refers to several individuals in Greek mythology:

• Adrastus, king of Argos.
• Adrastus, father of Eurydice, the wife of King Ilus of Troy.[1] He is otherwise unknown, but the Hellespont town or city of Adrastea may be named after him.
• Adrastus, who together with his son, Hipponous, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.[2]
• Adrastus, father of Hippodamia, wife of Peirithous, who was attempted by the Centaurs to carry off.[3]
• Adrastus, son of Polynices and Argea, daughter of the Argive Adrastus. He was a leader of the Mycenaeans during the Trojan War and was also counted as one of the Epigoni.[4][5]
• Adrastus, a son of Merops, the king of Percote, and brother to Amphius. Along with Amphius, he led a military force from Adrastea, Apaesus, Pityeia and Tereia to the Trojan War (despite the entreaties of their father, a seer, who could foresee that death awaited them on the battlefield). Adrastus was slain by Diomedes.[6]
• Adrastus, a warrior Trojan, killed by Agamennon.[7]

See also

• Adrastus (son of Gordias)

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.3
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 242
3. Hyginus, Fabulae 33
4. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 268
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.20.5
6. Homer, Iliad 2.828 & 11.328
7. Homer, Iliad 6

References

• Euripides, The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Euripides, Euripidis Fabulae. vol. 3. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer. Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.