Canthus
Family: Argonauts · Role: hero · First appears: Book I 1
Life events
- Caphaurus killed Canthus with a stone while defending his sheep.(Book IV 12 · 📍 Libya)
- With: Caphaurus
- “a shepherd who, in defence of his own sheep, while thou weft leading them off to thy comrades in their need, slew thee by the cast of a stone”
- The Argonauts buried Canthus and performed funeral rites for him.(Book IV 12)
- “the Minyae, when they knew it, afterwards took up the corpse and buried it in the earth, mourning; and the sheep they took with them.”
Book I 1
- parent: Canethus “Canthus eager for the quest, whom Canethus son of Abas sent”
Book IV 12
- enemies with Caphaurus “while thou weft leading them off to thy comrades in their need, slew thee by the cast of a stone; for he was no weakling, Caphaurus”
- friends with Polyphemus “that he might learn for certain from Heracles where he had left Polyphemus, son of Eilatus; for he was minded to question him on every point concerning his comrade”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.