{{Short description|Ancient Greek male name}} {{Redirect|Philomedusa|the genus of cnidarians|Philomedusa (cnidarian)}}
In Greek mythology, the name '''Areithous''' (Ancient Greek: Ἀρηΐθοος) may refer to:
* Areithous, King of Arne in Boeotia, and husband of {{Interlanguage link|Philomedusa|el|Φυλομέδουσα}}, by whom he had a son Menesthius.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 7.8 ff</ref> He is called in the Iliad the "club-bearer" (''korynetes''), because he fought with no other weapon but an iron club. He fell by the hand of Lycurgus of Arcadia, who drove him into a narrow defile, where he could not make use of his club. His armor was later worn by Lycurgus and then by Ereuthalion.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 7.136 ff</ref> The tomb of Areithous was shown in Arcadia as late as the time of Pausanias.<ref>Pausanias, 8.11.4</ref> *Areithous, a defender of Troy, squire and charioteer of the Thracian Rhigmus. Both Areithous and Rhigmus were killed by Achilles in the battle: he smote them with his spear.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.484-489</ref>
The name is based on the adjective ἀρηΐθοος, meaning warlike, or literally "swift in the fight."
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== References == * Homer, ''The Iliad'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] *Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] *Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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