Mythical Greek seer
InGreek mythology,Carnus (also spelledCarneus andCarneius) (Ancient Greek: Κάρνος) was a seer fromAcarnania, who was instructed in the art of divination byApollo. According to the poetPraxilla, he was a son ofEuropa, who was brought up by Apollo andLeto.[1] Alternatively, he was Apollo's lover and friend in some accounts.[2]
Carnus accompanied theHeracleidae, and was killed byHippotes with a spear for giving obscure prophecies. Apollo then struck the Dorians with plague; having consulted an oracle, they banished Hippotes from their camp and established a cult of Apollo Carneius with the institution of theCarneia to propitiate the god.[3]
- Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Scholia onTheocritus, Idyll 5.83
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