Editing Triopas

{{Short description|Set of mythological Greek characters}}
{{about|the characters in Greek mythology|the crustacean|Triops}}
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Triopas''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|r|aɪ|ə|p|ə|s}}) or '''Triops''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|r|aɪ|.|ə|p|s|,_|ˈ|t|r|aɪ|ˌ|ɒ|p|s}}; {{langx|grc|Τρίωψ}}, gen.: Τρίοπος) was the name of several characters whose relations are unclear.

*[[Triopas of Argos|Triopas]], king of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] and son of [[Phorbas (king of Argos)|Phorbas]].<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.1 5.81.1]</ref> His daughter was [[Messene (mythology)|Messene]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+4.1.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=:chapter=&highlight=Triopas 4.1.1]</ref>
* Triopas, king of [[Ancient Thessaly|Thessaly]], and son of [[Poseidon]] and princess [[Canace]], daughter of King [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]] of Aeolia. He was the brother of [[Aloeus]], [[Epopeus of Sicyon|Epopeus]], [[Hopleus]] and [[Nireus (mythology)|Nireus]]. Triopas was the husband of [[Myrmidon (hero)|Myrmidon]]'s daughter [[Hiscilla]], by whom he became the father of [[Iphimedeia]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Triops 1.7.4]</ref> [[Phorbas of Thessaly|Phorbas]]<ref>''Homeric Hymns to Apollo'' [https://topostext.org/work/356#207 3.211]</ref> and [[Erysichthon of Thessaly|Erysichthon]].<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Hymn to Demeter'' [https://topostext.org/work/125#31 31–32] & [https://topostext.org/work/125#96 96-100]</ref> He destroyed a temple of [[Demeter]] in order to obtain materials for roofing his own house, and was punished by insatiable hunger as well as being plagued by a snake which inflicted illness on him. Eventually Demeter placed him and the snake among the stars as the constellation [[Ophiuchus]] to remind others of his crime and punishment.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[De Astronomica]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.14.1 2.14.1]</ref> A city in [[Caria]] was named [[Triopium|Triopion]] after him.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#T636.1 Triopion]''</ref>
* Triopas, one of the [[Heliadae]], sons of [[Helios]] and [[Rhodos]] and grandson of Poseidon. Triopas, along with his brothers, [[Macareus (son of Helios)|Macar]], [[Actis (mythology)|Actis]] and [[Candalus]], were jealous of a fifth brother, [[Tenages]]'s, skill at science, and killed him. When their crime was discovered, Triopas escaped to [[Caria]] and seized a promontory which received his name (the [[Datça Peninsula|Triopian Promontory]]). Later, he founded the city of [[Knidos]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4C*.html#58.7 4.58.7]</ref> There was a statue of him and his horse at [[Delphi]], an offering by the people of Knidos.<ref>Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+10.11.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Triopas 10.11.1]</ref>
The name's [[popular etymology]] is "he who has three eyes" (from τρι- "three" + -ωπ- "see") but the ending -ωψ, -οπος suggests a [[Pre-Greek]] origin.

==Notes==
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== References ==
*[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|The Library of History]]'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59&ndash;8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/207 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|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}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin 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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

== Further reading ==
* Arthur Bernard Cook. "Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak". ''The Classical Review'' '''18''':1:75-89 (February 1904).

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