Metus (mythology)

In H. J. Rose's 1934 edition of the Fabulae (2nd century AD), Metus is the son of the sea god Neptune and Melite, daughter of the Egyptian king Busiris.^[1] In Peter K. Marshall's 2002 edition of the work, this figure is given as Amykos and his mother's name as Melie.^[2] The former reading comes from the F manuscript of the Fabulae, and the latter from Daniel Heinsius's edition.^[3]

Note

1. Hyginus, Fabulae 157 (Rose's Latin text; Grant's English translation).
2. Marshall, p. 135. Marshall's rendering is followed by Smith & Trzaskoma, p. 151.
3. Marshall, p. 135 on line 14.

References

• Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Marshall, Peter K., Hyginus <Mythographus>: Fabulae, Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Munich and Leipzig, K. G. Saur Verlag, 2002. ISBN 978-3-598-71237-1. doi:10.1515/9783110975512.
• Smith, R. Scott, and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis/Cambridge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6.