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{{Infobox deity
| type = Greek
| name = Olynthus
| deity_of = Founder of [[Olynthus]]
| siblings = [[Rhesus of Thrace|Rhesus]], [[Brangas (mythology)|Brangas]], Sete
| parents = [[Strymon (mythology)|Strymon]] ([[Eioneus]]) and [[Euterpe]]/[[Calliope]]/[[Terpsichore]] or [[Heracles]] and [[Bolbe]]
}}In [[Greek mythology]], '''Olynthus''' ({{langx|grc|Ὄλυνθος}}) was a son of [[Heracles]] and [[Bolbe]], from whom the ancient city of [[Olynthus]], and the river Olynthus near [[Apollonia (Chalcidice)|Apollonia]], were believed to have received their name according to [[Athenaeus]].<ref>[[Athenaeus]], ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' 8 p. 334</ref> According to [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]<ref name=":0">[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], [https://topostext.org/work/489#4 4]</ref> and  [[Stephanus of Byzantium]],<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Olynthus''</ref> Olynthus was son of king [[Strymon (mythology)|Strymon]], and brother of [[Brangas (mythology)|Brangas]] and [[Rhesus of Thrace|Rhesus]].<ref name=":0" /> 

==Mythology==
After Olynthus was killed during the chase by a lion, his brother [[Brangas (mythology)|Brangas]] buried him on the spot where he had fallen, and called the town which he subsequently built there [[Olynthus]].

==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]], ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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[[Category:Children of Potamoi]]
[[Category:Mythology of Macedonia (region)]]
[[Category:Heracleidae]]
[[Category:Children of Heracles]]


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