In
Greek mythology, the name Dolops (
Ancient Greek: Δόλοψ) may refer to:
*Dolops, a son of
Cronus
In Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Cronus, Cronos, or Kronos ( or , from el, Κρόνος, ''Krónos'') was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans, the divine descendants of the primordial Gaia (Mother Earth) and ...
and the
Oceanid
In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (; grc, Ὠκεανίδες, Ōkeanídes, pl. of grc, Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís, label=none) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters o ...
Philyra, brother of
Chiron.
*Dolops, son of
Hermes, who died in the city of Magnessa. His tomb was located at the seashore; the
Argonauts
The Argonauts (; Ancient Greek: ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, '' Argo'', ...
stopped by it for two days, waiting for the stormy weather to be over, and offered sacrifices to him.
*Dolops the
Achaean, son of
Clytius, killed by
Hector in the
Trojan War.
*Dolops the
Trojan, son of
Lampus. In the ''
Iliad'', he confronted
Meges in a battle and could have killed him if not for Meges' strong corselet; as Meges fought back,
Menelaus attacked Dolops from behind and killed him, whereupon the Greeks removed his armor.
*Dolops of
Lemnos, father of the shepherd Iphimachus who took care of the abandoned
Philoctetes
Philoctetes ( grc, Φιλοκτήτης ''Philoktētēs''; English pronunciation: , stress (linguistics), stressed on the third syllable, ''-tet-''), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea (Magnes ...
.
[Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 102]
Other uses
*
''Dolops'' (crustacean) - a genus of fish lice in the family
Argulidae
Notes
References
*
Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912
Online version at the Topos Text Project.* Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
*
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Grammatic ...
, ''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
*
''The Orphic Argonautica'', translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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