Erythrus
2. A son of Rhadamanthus, who led the Erythraeans from Crete to the Ionian Erythrae. (
Paus. 7.3.4.)
There are two other mythical personages of the name of Erythrus, or Erythrius, from whom the Boeotian Erythrae, and the Erythraean Sea, are said to have received their names respectively. (
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 267; Steph. Byz.
s. v. Ἐρυθρά; Curtius,
8.9.)
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