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Corythus

Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology

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Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology

Greek mythology

Corythus, son of Paris
Paris (mythology)

Paris , the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek mythology. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War....
and Oenone
Oenone

In Greek mythology, Oenone was the first wife of Paris Troy, whom he abandoned for the Queen consort Helen of Sparta.Oenone was a mountain nymph on Mount Ida Phrygia, a mountain associated with the Mother Goddess Cybele....
. After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy, now grown, to Troy
Troy

Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer....
, where he fell in love with Helen, and she received him warmly. Paris, discovering this, killed him, not recognizing his own son. Corythus was also said to have been, instead the son of Helen
Helen

In Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra....
and Paris.

Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by Rhoetus
Rhoetus

Rhoetus was a character mentioned by Ovid in Book V of his mock-epic Metamorphoses .After Perseus rescues Andromeda from the sea monster, her betrothed Phineus, brother of her father, attacks Perseus, throwing a spear at him....
, one of the Centaurs.

Corythus an Italian king and father, in some sources, of Iasion
Iasion

In Greek mythology, Iasion or Iasus was usually the son of Electra and Zeus and brother of Dardanus. Iasion founded the mystic rites on the island of Samothrace....
, by Electra
Electra

In Greek mythology, Electra was an Argosian princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and was a sibling to sisters Iphigeneia, Chrysothemis, and brother Orestes....

Corythus, one of the Doliones. He was killed by Tydeus
Tydeus

In Greek mythology, Tydeus was the father of Diomedes and husband of Deipyle. He was a son of Oeneus and either Periboea, Oeneus's second wife, or Gorge, Oeneus's daughter....
.

Corythus, son of Marmarus, and one of the court of Cepheus
Cepheus, King of Aethiopia

In Greek mythology, Cepheus was ruler of the Phoenician nation of Ethiopia .Cepheus' parentage is usually given as Belus and Achiroe, making him the brother of Danaus, King of Libya, and Aegyptus, King of Egypt....
. He wounded Pelates during the battle at the wedding feast of Perseus
Perseus

Perseus , the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Mycenae there, was the first of the mythic heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths in the cult of the Twelve Olympians....
and Andromeda
Andromeda (mythology)

Andromeda was a woman from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster....
.