Adrastus (mythology)

In Greek mythology Adrastus or Adrestus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδραστος or Ἄδρηστος),[1] (perhaps meaning "the inescapable"),[2] usually refers to:

Other figures in Greek mythology also named Adrastus include:

  • Adrastus, son of Polynices and Argia, who was the daughter of King Adrastus of Argos, making this Adrastus the grandson of his namesake. He was a leader of the Mycenaeans during the Trojan War and was also counted as one of the Epigoni.[4]
  • Adrastus, father of Eurydice, the wife of King Ilus of Troy.[5]
  • Adrastus, a son of King Merops of Percote, and brother to Amphius.[6] Along with Amphius, he led a military force from Adrastea, Apaesus, Pityeia and Tereia to the Trojan War, as allies of Troy (despite the entreaties of their father, a seer, who could foresee that death awaited them on the battlefield).[7] He was captured by by Menelaus, to whom he pleaded for his life, saying that his father was rich and would pay a large ransom for his return, and Menelaus was about to have him taken prisoner, when Agamemnon objected. But, although Adrastus is on the verge of being killed by Agamemnon, he was later said to be slain by Diomedes.[8]
  • Adrastus, a king who was said to have built the first temple of Nemesis, and after whom Adrasteia, a city and plain in the Troad, was said to have been named.[12]

Notes
  1. Grimal, s.v. Adrastus 1; Parada, s.v. Adrastus 1. For Ἄδρηστος, see Herodotus, 5.67 .
  2. Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Adrastus.
  3. Grimal, s.v. Adrastus 1; Tripp, s.v. Adrastus 1 Parada, s.v. Adrastus 1.
  4. Tripp, s.v. Adrastus 2; Parada, s.v. Adrastus 4; Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 265–269 (a leader of the Mycenaeans at Troy); Pausanias, 2.20.5 (one of the Epigoni).
  5. Parada, s.v. Adrastus 2; Apollodorus, 3.12.3.
  6. Parada, s.v. Adrastus 3.
  7. Leaf, p. 70; Homer, Iliad 2.828–834; Apollodorus, E.3.35. According to Leaf, p. 78, the name Adrastus here "is in all probability abstracted from that of his domain; it is of course familiar in early legend, and may have further suggested the association with Amphios, a possible reminiscence of Amphiaraos."
  8. Homer, Iliad 6.37–71 (captured by Menelaus, about to be killed by Agamemnon), 11.328–334 (Adrastus and Amphius killed by Diomedes). Leaf, p. 78, interprets the Iliad passage as Agamemnon having actually killed Adrastus, compare with Parada.
  9. Parada, s.v. Arastus 4; Leaf, p. 78; Homer, Iliad 16.692–694.
  10. Smith, s.v. Adrastus 2; Herodotus, 1.35–45.
  11. Hyginus, Fabulae 33. Possibly the same as the Adrastus king of Argos, Grimal, s.v. Adrastus, has Hippodamia being that Adrastus' daughter, however according Diodorus Siculus, 4.70.3, Hippodamia was the daughter of Butes (the only father of Hippodamia noted by Parada, s.v. Hippodamia 4), while according to Ovid, Heroides 17.247–248, her father was one "Atrax".
  12. Strabo, 13.1.13; Leaf, pp. 70–71, 77–80. For the possible relationship between Adrastus and this "King Adrastus", see Leaf, p. 78.

References
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  • Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History. Translated by C. H. Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Online version by Bill Thayer.
  • Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by E. P. Coleridge, in The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume II. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1.
  • Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley (translator), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1920; ISBN 0674991338. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae in Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabuae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6.
  • Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Leaf, Walter, Strabo on the Troad: Book XIII, Cap. I, Book 13, The University Press, 1923.
  • Ovid, Heroides in Heroides. Amores. Translated by Grant Showerman. Revised by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library No. 41. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-674-99045-6. Online version at Harvard University Press.
  • The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-19-869117-3.
  • Parada, Carlos, Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993. ISBN 978-91-7081-062-6.
  • Pausanias, 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, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Strabo, Geography, translated by Horace Leonard Jones; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. (1924). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library, Books 6–14.
  • Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970). ISBN 069022608X.
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