Corythus

Greek · quartigod · heroic age · quartigod

Quartigod son of Helen and Paris, distinct from the more famous Corythus son of Paris and Oenone (the elder Corythus, killed by Paris in jealousy when found with Helen — a separate figure entirely). Apollodorus 3.11 explicitly attributes the Helen-mothered Corythus to "more recent writers" and lists Dictys Cretensis as the structural source. Died at the sack of Troy in the roof-collapse death shared with his brothers Bunomus and Idaeus. The dual Corythus tradition is itself notable: two sons of Paris by different mothers carrying the same name, both dying young in the war's gravity.

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