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In Greek mythology, Celtus (/ˈsɛltəs/; Ancient Greek: Κέλτος Keltos /ˈkɛlˌtɒs/) may refer to three various figures:
- Celtus, the eponymous progenitor of the Celts.[1] There are two alternative traditions. One, found in Appian's Illyrian Wars,[2] holds that Celtus was the son of Polyphemos and Galatea and the brother of Illyrius and Galas.[3] The other, found in the Erotica Pathemata ("Sorrows of Love") by the 1st-century grammarian Parthenius of Nicaea,[4] and also known from the medieval Etymologicum Magnum,[5] has Celtus as the son of Heracles and Celtine.[6]
- Celtus, son of Periboea and Meges, a rich man son of Dymas. He was killed by Neoptolemus.[7]
- Celtus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Zacynthus along with other 43 wooers.[8] He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the help of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[9]
- ^ Irad Malkin The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity 1998 0520920260 p. 248 "Braccesi suggests that Diomedes was therefore the 'archegetes [founding leader] of the Gauls' ... It has also been suggested that the aitiological-eponymic tale of the Cyclops Polyphemos and Galatea, parents of Keltos (Celts, ...)"
- ^ Appian, Illyrian Wars 1.2
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle 1832
- ^ Parthenius, 30
- ^ Etymologicum Magnum 502.45 under Keltoi
- ^ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 230
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.610
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33