person
Hyacinthus
also: the Therapnaean boy
A Spartan (Therapnaean) youth loved by Apollo and accidentally killed; from his blood sprang the hyacinth, whose petals seem marked with a cry of grief.
Reading notes
- The Festivals §5.2 Therapnaean blood
The blood of Hyacinthus, the Spartan (Therapnaean) youth, from which sprang the flower marked with a cry of grief.
- Ibis §18 Oebalian boy
Hyacinthus, the Spartan ('Oebalian') youth killed by Apollo's discus.
- Metamorphoses §10.295 Hyacinthus
Spartan boy (son of Amyclas, of Oebalus's line) beloved of Apollo, killed by the rebounding discus.
- Metamorphoses §10.295 Taenarian boy
Hyacinthus, called Taenarian as a Laconian (from the Spartan cape Taenarus).
- Metamorphoses §13.404 the Oebalian wound
Hyacinthus, the Spartan ('Oebalian') youth from whose blood the same flower first sprang (Book 10).