Diochthondas

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In Greek mythology, Diochthondas (Ancient Greek: Διοχθώνδας) was a Minyan prince as the son of King Minyas of Orchomenus[1] probably either by Euryale, Clytodora, or Phanosyra, daughter of Paeon. His possible siblings were Clymene, Periclymene,[2] Eteoclymene,[3] Orchomenus, Presbon, Athamas,[4] Elara,[5] Persephone[6] and the Minyades.[7]

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  1. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Odes 14.5
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  3. ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.120
  4. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.230
  5. ^ Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey 7.324; Eustathius on Homer, Odyssey 7.324, p. 1581
  6. ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 11.281, citing Pherecydes (fr. 117 Fowler)
  7. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.1-168; Antoninus Liberalis, 10 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses; Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 38

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