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Rhexenor

Sources

Ancient

Apollodorus

3.15.6

After the death of Pandion his sons marched against Athens, expelled the Metionids, and divided the government in four; but Aegeus had the whole power.¹ The first wife whom he married was Meta, daughter of Hoples, and the second was Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor.²

¹ Compare Paus. 1.5.4, Paus. 1.39.4, according to whom Aegeus, as the eldest of the sons of Pandion, obtained the sovereignty of Attica, while his brother Nisus, relinquishing his claim to his elder brother, was invested with the kingdom of Megara. As to the fourfold partition of Attica among the sons of Pandion, about which the ancients were not agreed, see Strab. 9.1.6; Scholiast on Aristoph. Lys. 58, and on Wasps 1223.

² Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 494, who may have copied Apollodorus.

Homer

Odyssey

7.61–66

But with Periboea lay Poseidon and begat a son, great-hearted Nausithous, who ruled over the Phaeacians; and Nausithous begat Rhexenor and Alcinous. Rhexenor, when as yet he had no son, Apollo of the silver bow smote [65] in his hall, a bridegroom though he was, and he left only one daughter, Arete. Her Alcinous made his wife,

Ovid

Metamorphoses

14.504–509

“Amazed at his swift change

were Lycus, Abas, Nycteus and Rhexenor.

And, while they stared, they took his feathered shape.

...

If you should ask the form of these strange birds

they were like snowy swans, though not the same.

Modern

Parada

s.v. Rhexenor 1

Ῥηξήνωρ.

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•••Chalciope 1.

•••Apd.3.15.6

s.v. Rhexenor 2

A Phaeacian.

•Nausithous 1 ∞

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•••Arete

♇Apollo

D.-•-•••-♇Hom.Od.7.56ff.

s.v. Rhexenor 3

A comrade of Diomedes 2 in Italy.

♇Turned into a bird.

METAMORPHOSES

D.-♇Ov.Met.14.504.

Smith

s.v. Rhexenor

Ῥηξήνωρ, two mythical personages, one the father of Chalciope, and the second a son of Nausithous the king of the Phaeacians, and accordingly a brother of Alcinous. (Apollod. 3.15.6; Hom. Od. 7.64, &c.)

Tripp

s.v. Rhexenor

A son of Nausithoüs, king of the Phaeacians. For some unexplained reason, Apollo killed Rhexenor when he was still a bridegroom. His daughter Arete, married his brother Alcinoüs, who became king of the Phaeacians.