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Socus

Various figures of Greek mythology

Summary

Various figures of Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, the name Socus () may refer to the following personages:

  • Socus of Euboea, father of the seven Corybantes/Dactyls (Prymneus, Mimas, Acmon, Damneus, Ocythous, Idaeus, Melisseus) by Combe. He expelled his wife and sons from the island, and was ultimately killed by Cecrops, in whose kingdom the Corybantes sought refuge. His name is also mentioned by Hesychius of Alexandria in the form Sochus (Σωχός).
  • Socus, a defender of Troy, son of Hippasus and brother of Charops. The brothers were killed by Odysseus.
  • Socus, an epithet of Hermes of obscure etymology. According to a scholiast on the Homeric line where the epithet appears, there was an adjective σῶκος which meant "strong". The ancient authors linked the epithet to the Greek stem σω-

Notes

References

  • Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
  • Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theoi.com
  • Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 803 u. Sokos
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Band IV (Q - S), Hildesheim, 1965, ss. 1136 - 1137 u. Sokos

References

  1. [[Nonnus]], 13.135 ff.
  2. [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+11.426&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Socus 11.428–456]; [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 7.444
  3. ?Homer, ''Iliad'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+20.72&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Hermes 20.72]
  4. ''Realencyclopädie'' s. 803; Roscher s. 1136
  5. Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots. Tome IV-1 (Ρ - Υ). Paris, Éditions Klincksiek, 1977. - p. 1083
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