Dioplethes

{{Short description|Phthian prince as son of King Myrmidon and possibly Peisidice (daughter of Aeolus)}}

In Greek mythology, '''Dioplethes''' was a Phthian prince as son of King Myrmidon and possibly Peisidice (daughter of Aeolus), thus brother to Antiphus, Actor,<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Actor 1.7.3]</ref> Erysichthon,<ref>Athenaeus, ''Deipnosophistae'' 10.9b</ref><ref>Aelian, ''Varia Historia'' [https://topostext.org/work/220#1.27 1.27]</ref> Eupolemeia<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' 1.54</ref><ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 14</ref> and Hiscilla.<ref>Hyginus, ''De'' ''Astronomica'' 2.14</ref> In some accounts, he was the father of Perieres, King of Messenia.<ref>Scholia on Homer, ''Iliad'' 16.177</ref>

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== References == * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Athenaeus of Naucratis, ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Claudius Aelianus, ''Varia Historia'' translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. [https://topostext.org/work/220 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Claudius Aelianus, ''Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2''. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0591 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/207 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Gaius Julius Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].

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