Cleitor (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Cleitor or Clitor (Ancient Greek: Κλείτωρ) or Kleitor (Κλήτωρ) may refer to the following personages:

Cleitor, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of King Lycaon.[1][2] These sons were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. Cleitor together with his brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. He was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[1]
Cleitor, Cletor or Cleitos, the father of Eurymedousa, mother of Myrmidon by Zeus.[3]
Cleitor, was in his time the most powerful of the kings in Arcadia. He was the son of King Azan of Azania[4] but he was childless, therefore he was succeeded by his own cousin, Aepytus, the son of Elatus. Cleitor dwelt in Lycosura and founded a town that bears its name (Cleitor).[5]

Notes

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, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

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