Carnus

In Greek mythology, Carnus (also spelled Carneus and Carneius) (Greek: Κάρνος) was a seer from Acarnania, and is also known to have been a lover of Apollo.

Carnus accompanied the Heracleidae, and was killed by Hippotes with a spear for giving obscure prophecies. Apollo then struck the Dorians with plague; having consulted an oracle, they banished Hippotes from their camp and established a cult of Apollo Carneius to propitiate the god.

According to the poet Praxilla, he was a son of Zeus and Europa. He was reared by Leto and Apollo, and was probably not the Acarnanian Carnus.

References

Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.13.4–5
Conon, Narrations, 26
Scholia on Theocritus, Idyll 5.83

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