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Cytissorus
(90 words)
[German version] (Κυτί(σ)σωρος;
Kytí(s)sōros). C.'s parents are Phrixus and Chalciope [2], a daughter of Aeetes; grandson of Athamas, king of the Minyae (Apoll. Rhod. 2,1148ff.; schol. Apoll. Rhod. 2,388; Apollod. 1,83), whom he rescues from being sacrificed when he returns from Aeetes to his homeland, Thessalian Achaea. Athamas was to have been sacrificed to Zeus Laphystios as an act of atonement. C. having rescued his grandfather, the curse remains on his descendants (Hdt. 7,197). In Sophocles (schol. Aristoph. Nub. 257) it is Heracles who rescues Athamas. Frey, Alexandra …
Source:
Brill’s New Pauly