Cynurus

Cynurus

Cynurus

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According to the geographer Pausanias, Cynurus (Ancient Greek: Κύνουρος, Kúnouros) was the son of the Greek hero Perseus.[1]

Cynurus was the eponymous founder of a city Cynura in Cynuria, Laconia, populated by Argive emigrants.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Pausanias, 3.2.2.
  2. [2]
    Pausanias, 3.2.2; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Kynoura.

References

  • 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.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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