Schoeneus (Son of Athamas)

Schoeneus, a Boeotian king, the son of Athamas and Themisto. He may have emigrated to Arcadia, where a village Schoenous and a river Schoeneus flowing by it were believed to have been named after him,[ and where his children were believed to have originated from. He was the father of Atalanta, and also of the Arcadian Clymenus.

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.2
Tzetzes on Lycophron, 22
Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.1144
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 9.314
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.35.10
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Skhoinoûs
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.2 & 1.9.16
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.34.4 & 4.41.2
hence her patronymic Schoineïa or Schoeneïs in Roman poets (e. g. Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.609 & 660; Tristia 2.399 & Heroides 15 (16).263)
Hyginus, Fabulae 206, 238, 242 & 246

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