Arei'thous
(
*)Arhi+/qoos), king of Arne in Boeotia, and husband of Philomedusa, is called in the
Iliad (
7.8, &c.)
κορυνήτης, because he fought with no other weapon but a club.
He fell by the hand of the Arcadian Lycurgus, who drove him into a narrow defile, where he could not make use of his club. Erythalion, the friend of Lycurgus, wore the armour of Areithous in the Trojan war. (
Hom. Il. 7.138, &c.)
The tomb of Areithous was shewn in Arcadia as late as the time of Pausanias. (8.11.3.)
There is another mythical personage of this name in the
Iliad (
20.487).
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