Zeuxippus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Zeuxippus (Ancient Greek: Ζεύξιππος) may refer to:

• Zeuxippus, son of Apollo.[1]
• Zeuxippus, father of Pieris or Tereis, herself mother of Megapenthes by Menelaus.[2][3][4]
• Zeuxippus, son of King Eumelus of Pherae and possibly, Iphthime, daughter of Icarius of Sparta. He was the father of Armenius (Harmenius), himself father of Henioche.[5]

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.7
2. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 4.12
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.11.1 for the daughter's name
4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.18.6
5. Scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d citing Hellanicus

References

• 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.