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**Clytius** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Κλυτίος), also spelled **Klythios**, **Klytios**, **Clytios**, and **Klytius**, is the name of multiple people in [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology):

- Clytius, one of the [Giants](/source/Giants_(Greek_mythology)), sons of [Gaia](/source/Gaia_(mythology)), killed by [Hecate](/source/Hecate) during the Gigantomachy, the battle of the Giants versus the [Olympian gods](/source/Twelve_Olympians).[1][2]
- Clytius, an alternative name for [Clytoneus](/source/Clytoneus), the son of [Naubolus](/source/Naubolus_(mythology)) of [Argos](/source/Argos,_Peloponnese) and father of [Nauplius](/source/Nauplius_(mythology)) II.[3]
- Clytius, son of [Agriopas](/source/Agriopas_(mythology)) and grandson of [Cyclops](/source/Cyclops_(Greek_myth)). He fought in the war between [Eumolpus](/source/Eumolpus) and [Eleusis](/source/Eleusis_(mythology)) and fell alongside Eumolpus' son [Immaradus](/source/Immaradus) and [Egremus](/source/Egremus), son of [Eurynomus](/source/Eurynomus_(mythology)).[4]
- Clytius, the [Athenian](/source/Athens) father of [Pheno](/source/Pheno) who married King [Lamedon](/source/Lamedon_(mythology)) of Sicyon. [Ianiscus](/source/Ianiscus), descendant of this Clytius, became king in [Sicyon](/source/Sicyon) after [Adrastus](/source/Adrastus).[5]
- Clytius, a man killed by [Perseus](/source/Perseus) in the battle against [Phineus](/source/Phineus_(son_of_Belus)).[6]
- Clytius, a warrior in the army of [Dionysus](/source/Dionysus) during the god's Indian campaign. He was killed by [Corymbasus](/source/Corymbasus).[7]
- Clytius, an [Argonaut](/source/Argonauts) and an [Oechalian](/source/Oechalia_(Euboea)) prince as son of King [Eurytus](/source/Eurytus_of_Oechalia)[8] and [Antiope](/source/Antiope_(Greek_myth))[9] or [Antioche](/source/Antioche_(mythology)),[10] and thus brother to [Iole](/source/Iole), [Toxeus](/source/Toxeus), [Deioneus](/source/Deioneus), [Molion](/source/Molion), [Didaeon](/source/Didaeon) and [Iphitos](/source/Iphitos).[11] According to [Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), he was killed by [Aeetes](/source/Aeetes), if the text is not corrupt;[12] according to [Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), however, he was killed by [Heracles](/source/Heracles) during the latter's war against Eurytus.[8]
- Clytius, in a rare version of the myth, a son of [Phineus](/source/Phineus) and brother of [Polymedes](/source/Polymedes_(mythology)): the two brothers killed Phineus' second, [Phrygian](/source/Phrygia), wife ([Idaea](/source/Idaea_of_Thrace)?) at the instigation of [Cleopatra](/source/Cleopatra_(Greek_myth)).[13]
- Clytius, a Trojan prince as the son of King [Laomedon](/source/Laomedon_of_Troy) and brother of the later ruler [Priam](/source/Priam). He was also one of the Elders of [Troy](/source/Troy) during the siege of the city.[14] By [Laothoe](/source/Laothoe),[15] he was the father of [Caletor](/source/Caletor),[16] [Procleia](/source/Procleia)[17] and [Pronoe](/source/Pronoe) or [Pronome](/source/Pronome), of whom the latter was the mother of [Polydamas](/source/Polydamas_(mythology)) by [Panthous](/source/Panthous).[18]
- Clytius, son of [Alcmaeon](/source/Alcmaeon_(mythology)) and [Alphesiboea](/source/Alphesiboea_of_Psophis). He moved from [Psophis](/source/Psophis) to [Elis](/source/Elis_(city)) in order to escape his mother's vengeful brothers. The Clytidae, a clan of soothsayers, claimed descent from him.[19] According to [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), his mother was [Triphyle](/source/Triphyle), the [eponym](/source/Eponym) of [Triphylia](/source/Triphylia).[20]
- Clytius, each of the three namesakes among the [Suitors](/source/Suitors_of_Penelope) of [Penelope](/source/Penelope): one from [Dulichium](/source/Dulichium),[21] another from [Same](/source/Same_(ancient_Greece)),[22] and the third from [Zacynthus](/source/Zacynthus).[23] These men asked the hand in marriage of Penelope but suffered the same fate at the hands of the hero [Odysseus](/source/Odysseus). The latter shot all of them dead with the aid of [Eumaeus](/source/Eumaeus), [Philoetius](/source/Philoetius_(Odyssey)), and [Telemachus](/source/Telemachus).[24]
- Clytius, an attendant of [Telemachus](/source/Telemachus) in [Homer](/source/Homer)'s *[Odyssey](/source/Odyssey)*, the father of Telemachus' friend [Peiraeus](/source/Peiraeus_(mythology)).[25] [Dolops](/source/Dolops), a Greek warrior killed by [Hector](/source/Hector) in the *Iliad*, could also have been his son.[26]
- Clytius, one of the sons of [Aeolus](/source/Aeolus) who followed [Aeneas](/source/Aeneas) to [Italy](/source/Italy) and was killed by [Turnus](/source/Turnus).[27]
- Clytius, father of [Euneus](/source/Euneus) (one of those killed in the battle between Aeneas and Turnus).[28]
- Clytius, a young soldier in the army of [Turnus](/source/Turnus) who was loved by [Cydon](/source/Cydon) in [Virgil](/source/Virgil)'s *[Aeneid](/source/Aeneid)*, and was killed by [Aeneas](/source/Aeneas).[29]
- Clytius, father of [Acmon](/source/Acmon) and [Menestheus](/source/Menestheus) from [Lyrnessus](/source/Lyrnessus), [Phrygia](/source/Phrygia).[30]

To these can be added several figures not mentioned in extant literary sources and only known from various vase paintings:[31][32]

- Clytius, a companion of [Peleus](/source/Peleus) present at the wrestling match between Peleus and [Atalanta](/source/Atalanta).
- Clytius, an arms-bearer of [Tydeus](/source/Tydeus) present at the scene of murder of [Ismene](/source/Ismene), on a vase from [Corinth](/source/Ancient_Corinth).
- Clytius, a [barbarian](/source/Barbarian)-looking participant of a boar hunt, possibly the [Calydonian hunt](/source/Calydonian_hunt), on the Petersburg vase #1790.
- Clytius, a man standing in front of the enthroned [Hygieia](/source/Hygieia), on a vase by the [Meidias Painter](/source/Meidias_Painter).
- Clytius, an epithet of [Apollo](/source/Apollo), in an inscription.

## Notes

1. [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), 1.6.2

1. Imrė Trenčeni-Valdapfelis (1972). „Mitologija“.

1. [Scholia](/source/Scholia) on [Virgil](/source/Virgil), *[Aeneid](/source/Aeneid)* 2.82

1. Scholia on [Homer](/source/Homer), *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)* 18.483

1. [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), 2.6.5–6

1. [Ovid](/source/Ovid), *[Metamorphoses](/source/Metamorphoses)* 5.140

1. [Nonnus](/source/Nonnus), 28.66 & 92

1. [Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), 4.37.5

1. [Apollonius of Rhodes](/source/Apollonius_of_Rhodes), 1.86

1. [Scholaist](/source/Scholia) *on [Sophocles](/source/Sophocles), [Trachiniae](/source/Women_of_Trachis)* [266](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0081) as cited in [Hesiod](/source/Hesiod), The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, *The Taking of Oechalia* fr. 4

1. Apollonius Rhodius, 1.86 (with [scholia](/source/Scholia)) & 1044; 2.117 & 1043

1. [Hyginus](/source/Hyginus_(Fabulae)), *Fabulae* 14

1. *[Anthologia Palatina](/source/Anthologia_Palatina)* 3.4

1. Homer, *Iliad* 3.148 & 20.238

1. [Tzetzes](/source/Tzetzes), *Homerica* 437

1. Homer, *Iliad* 15.419

1. Pausanias, 10.14.2

1. Scholia on Homer, *Iliad* 12.211

1. Pausanias, 6.17.6

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), s.v. *[Triphylia](https://topostext.org/work/241#T638.4)*

1. Apollodorus, [Epitome](/source/Epitome) 7.27

1. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.28

1. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29

1. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33

1. Homer, *[Odyssey](/source/Odyssey)* 16.327 & 15.540

1. Homer, *Iliad* 11.302

1. Virgil, *Aeneid* 9.744

1. Virgil, *Aeneid* 11.666

1. Virgil, *Aeneid* 10.325

1. Virgil, *Aeneid* 10. 129 with [Servius](/source/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus)' commentary

1. Roscher, s. 1248

1. *Realencyclopädie*, s. 896 with further references therein

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- [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/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.](https://topostext.org/work/241)
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