# Thersanon

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One of the Argonauts

In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), **Thersanon** or **Thersanor**[note 1] is one of the [Argonauts](/source/Argonauts), the crew of the legendary [Argo](/source/Argo). Born on the island of [Andros](/source/Andros%2C_Greece), Thersanon was the son of the [sun god](/source/Solar_deity) [Helios](/source/Helios) by a woman named Leucothoe; he joined [Jason](/source/Jason) and the other Argonauts in the quest for the [Golden Fleece](/source/Golden_Fleece), kept by King [Aeëtes](/source/Ae%C3%ABtes) of [Colchis](/source/Colchis), who was himself a son of Helios and thus one of Thersanon's paternal half-brothers.[2]

## Parentage

[Hyginus](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus) names [Leucothoe](/source/Leucothoe_(daughter_of_Orchamus)) as his mother; according to [Ovid](/source/Ovid), Leucothoe was a mortal princess of [Babylon](/source/Babylon) that Helios fell in love with; but when her [father](/source/Orchamus) discovered the affair thanks to [Clytie](/source/Clytie_(Oceanid)), he buried Leucothoe alive, and afterwards her dead body was turned into a [frankincense tree](/source/Boswellia_sacra) by Helios.[3][4][5] Hyginus assigning them a son might indicate that he knew a very different version of the myth in which Leucothoe survives, or at least lives long enough to bear a child; alternatively Hyginus is perhaps referring to another woman, such as the sea goddess [Leucothea](/source/Leucothea), whom he elsewhere refers to as "Leucothoe" in the same work.[6][7][8]

## See also

- [Ancient Greece portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Ancient_Greece)
- [Mythology portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mythology)

- [Augeas](/source/Augeas)

- [Phaethon](/source/Phaethon)

- [Argonautica](/source/Argonautica)

- [List of Argonauts](/source/Argonauts)

## Footnotes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-first_2-0)** The text of the *Fabulae* is corrupted, and the Argonaut's name has been corrected to either *Thersanon* or *Thersanor*; the form "Thersanor" appears in an alphabetic list of Argonauts on a [papyrus](/source/Papyrus) (*POxy* 61.4097).[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Scott Smith and Trzaskoma, p. [103](https://books.google.com/books?id=vczTNMWLGdoC&pg=PA103); p. [189](https://books.google.com/books?id=vczTNMWLGdoC&pg=PA189)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Hyginus](/source/Hyginus_(Fabulae)), *Fabulae* [14.4](https://topostext.org/work/206#14.4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Ovid](/source/Ovid), *[Metamorphoses](/source/Metamorphoses)* [4.192–270](https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-metamorphoses/1916/pb_LCL042.193.xml)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Hard, [p. 45](https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA45)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Gantz, p. 34

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Hyginus, *Fabulae* [125](https://topostext.org/work/206#125)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** William Smith, *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)* [Leucothoe](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DL%3Aentry+group%3D12%3Aentry%3Dleucothoe-bio-1)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForbes_Irving1990266_9-0)** [Forbes Irving 1990](#CITEREFForbes_Irving1990), p. 266.

## Bibliography

- Forbes Irving, Paul M. C. (1990). [*Metamorphosis in Greek Myths*](https://books.google.com/books?id=URvXAAAAMAAJ). [Clarendon Press](/source/Clarendon_Press). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-19-814730-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-814730-9).

- [Gantz, Timothy](/source/Timothy_Gantz), *Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources*, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8018-5360-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5360-9) (Vol. 1), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-8018-5362-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5362-3) (Vol. 2).

- [Hyginus, Gaius Julius](/source/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus), [*The Myths of Hyginus*](http://www.theoi.com/Text/HyginusFabulae1.html). Edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.

- Hard, Robin, *The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology"*, Psychology Press, 2004, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780415186360](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780415186360). [Google Books](https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC).

- [Ovid](/source/Ovid). *[Metamorphoses](/source/Metamorphoses), Volume I: Books 1-8*. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Revised by G. P. Goold. [Loeb Classical Library](/source/Loeb_Classical_Library) No. 42. Cambridge, Massachusetts: [Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press), 1977, first published 1916. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-674-99046-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-99046-3)

- Scott Smith R.; Trzaskoma, Stephen M., *Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology*, [Hackett Publishing Company](/source/Hackett_Publishing_Company), Inc, 2007, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-87220-821-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87220-821-6). [Google books](https://books.google.com/books?id=vczTNMWLGdoC).

- [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)), *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)*, London (1873). [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0104).

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