Coenus or Koinos ( grc-gre, Κοῖνος) was according to later tradition the second king of the ancient Greek kingdom of
Macedonia.
The Macedonian historian
Marsyas of Pella Marsyas of Pella ( grc, Μαρσύας Περιάνδρου Πελλαῖος; c. 356 BC – c. 294 BC), son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According to the Suda Encyclopedia, he was a brother of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who was afterwards ...
relates the following aetiological story regarding his name:
[The history of Alexander the Great by Charles Alexander Robinson Page 169 (1953)] "...a certain Knopis from
Colchis came to Macedonia and lived in the court of Caranus; when the royal male child was born, Caranus had the desire to name him after his father, Kiraron or Kararon, but the mother opposed and wanted after her father the child to be named. When Knopis was asked responded: by neither name. Therefore he was called Koinos (common)".
See also
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Chronicon (Eusebius)
References
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8th-century BC Macedonian monarchs
Argead kings of Macedonia
Old Macedonian kingdom
Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)