Adrastus (mythology)

Adrastus (Greek: Ἄδραστος; Ionic: Adrestus Ἄδρηστος) refers to several individuals in Greek mythology:

• Adrastus, king of Argos.
• Adrastus, a son of Merops, the king of Percote, and brother to Amphius. Along with Amphius, he led a military force from Adrastea, Apaesus, Pityeia and Tereia to the Trojan War (despite the entreaties of their father, a seer, who could foresee that death awaited them on the battlefield). Adrastus was slain by Diomedes.^[1]
• Adrastus, a warrior Trojan, killed by Agamennon.^[2]
• Adrastus, father of Eurydice, the wife of King Ilus of Troy.^[3] He is otherwise unknown, but the Hellespont town or city of Adrastea may be named after him.
• Adrastus, son of Polynices and Argea, daughter of the Argive Adrastus. He was a leader of the Mycenaeans during the Trojan War and was also counted as one of the Epigoni.^[4][5]
• Adrastus and Hipponous, two otherwise unknown sons of Heracles, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.^[6]

See also

• Adrastus (son of Gordias)

References

1. Homer, Iliad, 2. 828; 11. 328
2. Homer, Iliad, 6.
3. Bibliotheca 3. 12. 3
4. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, 268
5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 20. 5
6. Hyginus, Fabulae, 242