In
Greek mythology, Crisus or Crissus (
Ancient Greek: ''Κρῖσος'') was a son of
Phocus and twin brother of
Panopeus. With
Antiphateia, daughter of
Naubolus
''Naubolus'' is a genus of South American Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.
Species
it contains nine species, found in Paraguay, Argentina, Guyana, and Brazil:
*''Naubolus albopu ...
, he became father of
Strophius; thus he was the grandfather of
Pylades. He is also said to have founded the town of
Crissa, which received its name from him.
Stephanus of Byzantium
Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...
, ''Ethnica'' s.v. ''Krîsa''; Tzetzes on Lycophron
Lycophron (; grc-gre, Λυκόφρων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, sophist, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely).
Life and ...
, ''Alexandra'' 1070
Notes
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
*
Stephanus of Byzantium
Stephanus or Stephan of Byzantium ( la, Stephanus Byzantinus; grc-gre, Στέφανος Βυζάντιος, ''Stéphanos Byzántios''; centuryAD), was a Byzantine grammarian and the author of an important geographical dictionary entitled ''Ethni ...
, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Phocian characters in Greek mythology
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