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
In Greco-Roman geography, Colchis (; ) was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi ( ka, ეგრისი) located on the coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.
Its population, the Colchians are generally though ...
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)
The ''Chronicon'' or ''Chronicle'' ( Greek: Παντοδαπὴ ἱστορία ''Pantodape historia'', "Universal history") was a work in two books by Eusebius of Caesarea. It seems to have been compiled in the early 4th century. It containe ...
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8th-century BC Macedonian monarchs
Argead kings of Macedonia
Old Macedonian kingdom
Mythology of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)