InGreek mythology, the nameSocus (Ancient Greek:Σῶκος,romanized: Sôkos) may refer to the following personages:

• Socus ofEuboea, father of the sevenCorybantes/Dactyls (Prymneus, Mimas,Acmon, Damneus,Ocythous,Idaeus,Melisseus) byCombe. He expelled his wife and sons from the island, and was ultimately killed byCecrops, in whose kingdom the Corybantes sought refuge.^[1] His name is also mentioned byHesychius of Alexandria in the formSochus (Σωχός).
• Socus, a defender ofTroy, son ofHippasus and brother ofCharops. The brothers were killed byOdysseus.^[2]
• Socus, an epithet ofHermes^[3] of obscure etymology. According to ascholiast on the Homeric line where the epithet appears, there was an adjective σῶκος which meant "strong". The ancient authors linked the epithet to the Greek stem σω- < σαο- "whole, safe".^[4] Despite the attempts of modern scholars to elaborate on this etymological suggestion, no satisfactory explanation has been provided as of 1977.^[5]

• Naming citation for asteroid3708 Socus

• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis,Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theoi.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 803 u.Sokos
• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.):Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Band IV (Q - S), Hildesheim, 1965, ss. 1136 - 1137 u. Sokos

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