Mermeros and Pheres

In Greek mythology, Mermeros and Pheres were the sons of Jason and Medea. They were killed either by the Corinthians^[1][2] or by Medea^[3][4][5][6], for reasons that vary depending on the rendition (see Medea). In one account, Mermerus was killed by a lioness while hunting^[7].

Namesakes

There were other characters in Greek mythology that bore the names Mermerus and Pheres:

• Pheres, son of Cretheus and Tyro

• Pheres, a Cretan killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War^[8]

• Pheres, who fought under Aeneas and was killed by Halaesus^[9]

• Pheres, a defender of Thebes^[10]

• Pheres, also knowh as Phereus or Thyreus, one of the children of Oeneus and Althaea^[11][12]

• Mermerus, father of Erythea and Ilus, who played host to Odysseus in a tale recounted in The Odyssey^[13]

• Mermerus, a Centaur^[14]

• Mermerus, a Trojan who was killed in a battle during the Trojan War. His armor was then stripped off his body by Antilochus.^[15]

References

1. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 3. 6
2. ^ Scholia on Euripides' Medea, 10
3. ^ Euripides, Medea
4. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 25
5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 54. 7
6. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 9. 28 cites both versions
7. ^ Naupactica, cited in Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 3. 9
8. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 6. 662
9. ^ Virgil, Aeneid, 10. 413
10. ^ Statius, Thebaid, 9. 106
11. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 8. 1
12. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2
13. ^ Homer, Odyssey, 1. 260
14. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 305
15. ^ Homer, Iliad, 14. 513