Alipherus
Alipherus[pronunciation?] or Halipherus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλίφηρος) was in Greek mythology one of the sons of Lycaon.[1] He was killed, along with his brothers, by a lightning bolt, for his insolence.[2] The town of Alifeira in Greece was traditionally believed to have been founded by this Alipherus, and to have derived its name from him.[3][4]
Notes
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alipherus". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 132.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.3.1 & 8.26.4
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Ἀλίφειρα
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.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alipherus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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