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Greek mythology
Coronus' the son of
Caeneus
Caeneus
In Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero of Thessaly and, in Ovid's Metamorphoses— where the classical model of a hero is deconstructed and transformed— originally a woman, Caenis, daughter of Atrax...
. He was one of the Lapiths and was killed by Heracles.
Coronus, king of Sicyon, son of
Apollo
Apollo
Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
and Chrysorthe, and father of
Lamedon
and
Corex
. He was deposed by Epopeus.
Coronus, son of
Thersander
Thersander
In Homer's Iliad, Thersander was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing. He was the son of Polynices and Argea....
. He was given land by Athamas and founded Coroneia.
Lusitanian mythology
Coronus, a deity of the
Lusitanian mythology
Lusitanian mythology
Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, the Indo-European people of western Iberia, in the territory comprising most of modern Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca....
, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal).