Clytius is the name of many people in Greek mythology:

  • A son of Laomedon in Homer's Iliad, book 10.
  • A young soldier in the army of Turnus who is loved by Cydon in Virgil's Aeneid, 10. v. 325.
  • A titan killed by Vulcan in the battle of the gods according to Apollodorus.
  • A man who attended Telemachus in Homer's Odyssey, 15.
  • One of the sons of Aeolus who followed Aeneas into Italy and was killed by Turnus is also named Clytius in the Aeneid, 9, v. 744.
  • An Argonaut, son of Eurytus, killed by Apollo for challenging him to an archery match

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1848 edition of Lempriere's Dictionary.



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