Carystus (mythology)

Carystus (/kəˈrɪstəs/; Ancient Greek: Κάρυστος) or Carycus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Chiron and a nymph Chariclo, brother of Hippe, Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. Carystus was the father of Zarex,[1] and also a certain Aristaeus. The town of Carystus on Euboea took the name from him.[2][3][4]

For other uses, see Carystus (disambiguation).

Notes
  1. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 580
  2. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.181
  3. Eustathius on Homer, p. 281
  4. Greek Lyric IV: Bacchylides, Fragment 45 (from Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes)


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