Kanop (Kanob, other Greek Κάνωβος or Κάνωπος ) - a character of ancient Greek mythology, helmsman Menelaus . He died in Egypt, the city of Kanob [1] and the island washed by the Nile [2] are named after him. Also named after him is the star Canopus in the constellation Kiel . Plutarch compares Canop with the helmsman of the ship Osiris [3] . According to Hekatey , on Faros there was a temple of the helmsman Menelaus [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Strabo. Geography XVII 1, 17 (p. 801); Tacitus. Annals II 60
- ↑ Gigin. Astronomy II 32
- ↑ See Plutarch. About Isis and Osiris 22
- ↑ Hecatei, fr. 307 Jacobi // Malkin I. Myth and territory in the Spartan Mediterranean. Cambridge UP. 2003. P.48