InGreek mythology,Proetus (/ˈpriːtəs/;Ancient Greek: ΠροῖτοςProitos) may refer to the following personages:

• Proetus, king ofArgos andTiryns, son ofAbas and twin brother ofAcrisius.^[1]
• Proetus, a prince ofCorinth as the son of PrinceThersander, son of KingSisyphus. He was the father ofMaera who died a maiden.^[2]Scholiasts on theOdyssey confound him with the Argive Proetus.^[3]
• Proetus ofThebes,eponym of the Proetid Gates,^[4] and father ofGalanthis.^[5]
• Proetus ofNauplia, a son ofNauplius I and father ofLernus.^[6]
• Proetus, a son ofAgenor (?). It is unclear whetherStephanus^[7] is referring to a son of Agenor named Proetus, or to the Argive Proetus as a descendant of Agenor.

• Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Apollonius Rhodius,Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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