Mermeros and Pheres

In Greek mythology, Mermeros and Pheres were the sons of Jason and Medea. They were killed either by the Corinthians^[1][2] or by Medea,^[3][4][5][6] for reasons that vary depending on the rendition (see Medea). In one account, Mermerus was killed by a lioness while hunting.^[7]

Namesakes

There were other characters in Greek mythology that bore the names Mermerus and Pheres:

• Pheres, son of Cretheus and Tyro
• Pheres, a Cretan killed by Aeneas in the Trojan War^[8]
• Pheres, who fought under Aeneas and was killed by Halaesus^[9]
• Pheres, a defender of Thebes^[10]
• Pheres, also knowh as Phereus or Thyreus, one of the children of Oeneus and Althaea^[11][12]
• Mermerus, father of Erythea and Ilus, who played host to Odysseus in a tale recounted in The Odyssey^[13]
• Mermerus, a Centaur^[14]
• Mermerus, a Trojan who was killed in a battle during the Trojan War. His armor was then stripped off his body by Antilochus.^[15]

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 3. 6
2. Scholia on Euripides' Medea, 10
3. Euripides, Medea
4. Hyginus, Fabulae, 25
5. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 54. 7
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 9. 28 cites both versions
7. Naupactica, cited in Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 3. 9
8. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 6. 662
9. Virgil, Aeneid, 10. 413
10. Statius, Thebaid, 9. 106
11. Bibliotheca 1. 8. 1
12. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 2
13. Homer, Odyssey, 1. 260
14. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 305
15. Homer, Iliad, 14. 513