Coronus
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Greek mythology
- Coronus' the son of CaeneusCaeneusIn Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero of Thessaly and, in Ovid's Metamorphoses— where the classical model of a hero is deconstructed and transformed— originally a woman, Caenis, daughter of Atrax...
. He was one of the Lapiths and was killed by Heracles. - Coronus, king of Sicyon, son of ApolloApolloApollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...
and Chrysorthe, and father of Lamedon and Corex. He was deposed by Epopeus. - Coronus, son of ThersanderThersanderIn Homer's Iliad, Thersander was one of the Epigoni, who attacked the city of Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who had attempted the same thing. He was the son of Polynices and Argea....
. He was given land by Athamas and founded Coroneia.
Lusitanian mythology
- Coronus, a deity of the Lusitanian mythologyLusitanian mythologyLusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, the Indo-European people of western Iberia, in the territory comprising most of modern Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca....
, in the cultural area of Lusitania (in the territory of modern Galicia and Extremadura (Spain) and Portugal).