Cynurus (Ancient Greek: Κύνουρος, Kúnouros) was the son of the Greek hero Perseus.[Pausanias, 3.2.2.]
According to the tradition he led colonists from Argos into Cynuria.[Pausanias, 3.2.2; Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Kynoura.]
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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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
