Locrus

In Greek mythology, the name Locrus (/ˈlɒkrəs/; Ancient Greek: Λοκρῷ) may refer to:

• Locrus, son of Physcius and grandson of Amphictyon son of Deucalion, became by Cabya the father of Opus, the mythical ancestor of the Ozolian Locrians.[1] According to some, his wife was called Cambyse[2] or Protogeneia.[3]
• Locrus, son of Zeus and Maera, the daughter of Proetus of Corinth. He is said to have assisted Zethus and Amphion in the building of Thebes.[4] In some accounts, his mother was called Megaclite, daughter of Macareus and had a sister Thebe who married Zethus.[5]
• Locrus, son of Phaeax and brother of Alcinous who emigrated to Italy where he married Laurina, the daughter of Latinus.[6]

• Locrus, also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

Notes

1. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 15
2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 277
3. Pindar, Olympian Ode 9.86
4. Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1688
5. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10. 21
6. Conon, Narrations 3.

References

• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.