Learchus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Learchus)

Life events

• Athamas kills Learchus, while Ino casts herself and Melicertes into the sea.(Apollodorus, Library 1.9 · 📍 Boeotia)
  • With: Athamas Ino Melicertes
  • “But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.”
• Hera drove Athamas and Ino mad, causing the deaths of Learchus and Melicertes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.4)
  • With: Hera Athamas Ino Melicertes
  • “But Hera indignantly drove them mad, and Athamas hunted his elder son Learchus as a deer and killed him, and Ino threw Melicertes into a boiling cauldron, then carrying it with the dead child she sprang into the deep.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Athamas “by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes.”
• parent: Ino “Ino, by whom he had Learchus and Melicertes.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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