Athos (mythology)

The mountain took its name after this Athos, who was attacked by Poseidon, the god of the sea.^[3] The citation is incomplete, as it fails to establish that the mountain was named from the giant.^[4] Stephanus of Byzantium attributed the story to some lost work by Nicander, where he apparently described Poseidon hurling two blocks with his hands against the gigantic Athos.^[5] Eustathius of Thessalonica says that then Poseidon trapped Athos under the mountain.^[4]

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• Kiessling, T.; Heindorfius, L. F. Τ, eds. (1826). Theocritus, Bion et Moschus. Vol. II. London, United Kingdom.
• Larson, Jennifer (June 28, 2001). Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512294-1.
• Nicander (1953). Gow, A. S. F.; Scholfield A. F. (eds.). Poems and Poetical Fragments. New York-Melbourne-Madrid: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-05822-3. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Stephanus of Byzantium (2006). Ethica. Vol. 1 (Alpha-Sigma). Translated by Margarethe Billerbeck. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017449-6.