In Greek mythology, Ornytion (Ancient Greek: Ὀρνύτιων means 'moon-bird'^[1]) or Ornytus (Ὄρνυτος)^[2] may refer to two different characters:

Ornytion, also known as Porphyrion,^[3] a Corinthian prince who later succeeded his father, King Sisyphus, as the ruler of the Ephyraean land. His mother was the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. Ornytion was the brother of Glaucus, Thersandrus and Almus, and the father of Phocus and Thoas.^[4] A scholiast on Euripides related of him that he came from Aonia to join the people of Hyampolis in the battle against the Opuntian Locrians over Daphnus and won himself the kingdom, which he handed over to Phocus and returned to Corinth with his other son, Thoas, who later succeeded him.^[5]
Ornytion, son of Phocus and thus grandson of the former above Ornytion. He was the father of Naubolus.^[6]

Notes

References

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Rulers of Ancient Corinth

Heleidae

Sisyphidae

Sisyphus
Glaucus
Bellerophon
Ornytion
Thoas
Damophon
Propodas

two kings at the same time	Doridas and Hyanthidas

Heracleidae

Aletidae	Aletes Ixion Agelas I Prymnes
Bacchiadae	Bacchis Agelas II Eudaemus Aristomedes Agemon Alexander Telestes Automenes Pritanius

Cypselid tyrants

Cypselus I
Periander
Psammetichus (Cypselus II)

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