BROTEAS

1. A son of Vulcan and Minerva, who burnt himself that he might not be taunted with his ugliness.

2. One of the fighters at the marriage of Phincus. ( Metamorphoses by Ovid V)

3. A Lapith, who was slain at the marriage of Pirithous. ( Metamorphoses by Ovid XII)

4. The father of Tantalus, who had been married to Clytaeinnestra before Agamemnon. The common account, however, is, that Thyestes was the father of this Tantalus.

5. A son of Tantalus, who, according to a tradition of the Magnates, had made the most ancient statue of the mother of the gods on the rock of Coddinos.