# Prothous

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In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), '''Prothous''' ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Πρόθοος ''Prothoös'') may refer to:

*Prothous, an [Arcadian](/source/Arcadia_(region)) prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King [Lycaon](/source/Lycaon_of_Arcadia) either by the [naiad](/source/naiad) [Cyllene](/source/Cyllene_(mythology)),<ref>[Dionysius of Halicarnassus](/source/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus), ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.13.1</ref> [Nonacris](/source/Nonacris_(mythology))<ref>[Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.17.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Nonacris 8.17.6]</ref> or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, [Zeus](/source/Zeus) visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Aegaeon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.<ref>[Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.8.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=8&highlight=Aegaeon 3.8.1]</ref>
*Prothous, son of [Thestius](/source/Thestius) and brother of [Althaea](/source/Althaea_(mythology)).<ref>Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.45.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Prothous 8.45.6], who calls him Πρόθους instead of Πρόθοος</ref> He was one of the [Calydonian Boar Hunters](/source/Calydonian_Boar).
*Prothous, son of the [Aetolia](/source/Aetolia)n [Agrius](/source/Agrius), killed by [Diomedes](/source/Diomedes).<ref>Apollodorus, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.8.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:chapter=&highlight=Prothous 1.8.6]</ref>
*Prothous of [Argos](/source/Ancient_Argos), a warrior in the army of the [Seven against Thebes](/source/Seven_against_Thebes). He cast lots to assign places in the chariot race at the funeral games of [Opheltes](/source/Opheltes).<ref>[Statius](/source/Statius), ''[Thebaid](/source/Thebaid_(Latin_poem))'' 6.389</ref>
*Prothous, a defender of Thebes against the Seven, killed by [Tydeus](/source/Tydeus).<ref>Statius, ''Thebaid'' 8.540</ref>
*Prothous, son of [Tenthredon](/source/Tenthredon)<ref>[Homer](/source/Homer), ''[Iliad](/source/Iliad)'' 2.758; [Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97]</ref> and either [Eurymache](/source/Eurymache) or [Cleobule](/source/Cleobule) the daughter of [Eurytus](/source/Eurytus).<ref>[Tzetzes](/source/John_Tzetzes), ''Allegories of the Iliad'' Prologue 634–636</ref> He was one of the commander of the [Magnetes](/source/Magnetes) who dwelt around mount [Pelion](/source/Pelion) and the river [Peneus](/source/Pineios_(Thessaly)) and one of the Greek leaders in the [Trojan War](/source/Trojan_War). Prothous brought forty ships to Troy.<ref>[Conon](/source/Conon_(mythographer)), ''Narrations'' 29; [Dictys Cretensis](/source/Dictys_Cretensis), 1.17</ref> According to one version, Prothous, together with [Meges](/source/Meges) and a number of others, died as a result of a shipwreck near [Cape Caphereus](/source/Cape_Caphereus) of [Euboea](/source/Euboea);<ref>Tzetzes on [Lycophron](/source/Lycophron), 902</ref> in another version, Prothous, [Eurypylus](/source/Eurypylus) and [Guneus](/source/Guneus) ended up in [Libya](/source/Ancient_Libya) and settled there.<ref>Tzetzes on Lycophron, 899</ref>
*Prothous, one of the [Suitors](/source/Suitors_of_Penelope) of [Penelope](/source/Penelope) who came from [Same](/source/Same_(Homer)) along with other 22 wooers.<ref>Apollodorus, [Epitome](/source/Epitome) 7.28</ref> He, with the other suitors, was killed by [Odysseus](/source/Odysseus) with the aid of [Eumaeus](/source/Eumaeus), [Philoetius](/source/Philoetius_(Odyssey)), and [Telemachus](/source/Telemachus).<ref name=":1">Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(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].
*[Conon](/source/Conon_(mythographer))'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190322161405/https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [Dictys Cretensis](/source/Dictys_Cretensis)'', from The Trojan War.'' ''The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and [Dares the Phrygian](/source/Dares_Phrygius)'' translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [Gaius Julius Hyginus](/source/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.]
* [Homer](/source/Homer), [''The Iliad''](/source/Iliad) with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), ''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].
* [Publius Papinius Statius](/source/Statius)'', The Thebaid'' translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [https://topostext.org/work/149 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Publius Papinius Statius, ''The Thebaid. Vol I-II''. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0498 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*[Tzetzes, John](/source/John_Tzetzes), ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-674-96785-4}}

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Category:Princes in Greek mythology
Category:Sons of Lycaon
Category:Achaean Leaders
Category:Thessalians in the Trojan War
Category:People of the Trojan War
Category:Suitors of Penelope
Category:Mythological Aetolians
Category:Mythological Arcadians
Category:Mythological Argives
Category:Mythological Thebans
Category:Ancient Magnesia
Category:Arcadian mythology

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