Corythus is the name of six mortal men in Greek mythology.
*Corythus, son of Marmarus, and one of the court of Cepheus. He wounded
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*Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by
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, one of the Centaurs.
*Corythus, an Iberian, beloved of Heracles. Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet ( Greek ''korys'',
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''korythos''), which took its name from him.
*Corythus, one of the Doliones. He was killed by Tydeus.
*Corythus, a king who raised Telephus, son of Heracles and Auge, as his own son.
*Corythus, son of Paris and the nymphOenone. After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy, now grown, to Troy, where he fell in love with Helen, and she received him warmly. Paris, discovering this, killed him, not recognizing his own son. Corythus was also said to have been, instead, the son of Helen and Paris.Parthenius, 34
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