Arabius (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Arabius or Arabus (Ancient Greek: Ἀράβοιο or Ἀράβιος[1]) may refer to the following distinct or identical individuals:

• Arabius, eponym of Arabia, and the son of Hermes and Thronia, daughter of King Belus of Egypt.[2][3]
• Arabus, son of Apollo by Babylo (Babylon).[4][5] He may also be the same as the above.

Either of this two Arabus, became the father Cassiopeia, wife of King Phoenix of Phoenicia.[6]

Notes

1. Strabo, Geographica 1.2.34 (Greek)
2. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr.15
3. Strabo, Geographica 1.2.34
4. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 19.
5. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.56–57 p. 196
6. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 40

References

• Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.