CYNORTES
or CYNORTAS, a son of Amyclas by
Diomede, and brother of Hyacinthus. After the death of his brother
Argalus, he became king of Sparta and
father of Oebalus or of Perieres. His tomb was shown at Sparta
not far from the Scias. (Apollodorus iii)
From Apollodorus Library Book 3. Continued
Amyclas and Diomede, daughter of Lapithus, had sons, Cynortes and Hyacinth. They say that this Hyacinth was beloved of Apollo and killed by him involuntarily with the cast of a quoit.
Cynortes had a son Perieres, who married Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus, as Stesichorus says, and she bore Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus, and Leucippus.
Aphareus and Arene, daughter of Oebalus, had sons Lynceus and Idas and Pisus; but according to many, Idas is said to have been gotten by Poseidon.
But some say that Aphareus and Leucippus were sons of Perieres, the son of Aeolus, and that Cynortes begat Perieres, and that Perieres begat Oebalus, and that Oebalus begat Tyndareus, Hippocoon, and Icarius by a Naiad nymph Batia.
