Triŏpas
(
Τριόπας and
Τρίοψ). A
son of Poseidon and Canacé, a daughter of Aeolus, or of Helios (the Sun) and
Rhodos, and the father of Iphimedia and Erysichthon. Hence his son Erysichthon is called
Triopeïus, and his granddaughter Mestra or Metra, the daughter of
Erysichthon,
Triopeïs. He is said to have expelled the Pelasgians from
a part of Thessaly, but was himself at last obliged to leave the country, when he went to
Caria in Asia Minor and founded Cnidus, hence called
Triopia (
Herod.i. 1Herod. 74;
Apollod. i.7.4;
Diod.v. 56). He
or his son Erysichthon violated the sacred grove of Demeter, for which he was punished with
endless hunger.