Croton

Role: man whose name was given to the city of Crotona · First appears: Fable 109

Life events

• Myscelos reaches the Æsar, discovers Croton’s burial mound, and founds a city bearing Croton’s name.(Fable109 · 📍 Crotona)
  • With: Myscelos
  • “And there, on the appointed land, did he found his walls, and he transferred the name of him that was {there} entombed to his city.”

Fable 109

• with Hercules (Hercules's prophecy concerns a city named for Croton.) “And there, on the appointed land, did he found his walls, and he transferred the name of him that was {there} entombed to his city.”
• with Myscelos (Myscelos founds the city and gives it Croton's name.) “he finds the destined mouth of the river Æsar; and, not far thence, a mound, beneath which the ground was covering the sacred bones of Croton. And there, on the appointed land, did he found his walls, and he transferred the name of him that was {there} entombed to his city.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.