Corythus, one of the Lapiths. Only a youth, he was killed nonetheless by Rhoetus, one of the Centaurs.[5]
Corythus, an Iberian, beloved of Heracles. Was said to have been the first to devise a helmet (Greekkorys, gen.korythos), which took its name from him.[6]
Corythus, son of Paris and the nymphOenone. After Paris abandoned Oenone, she sent the boy - now grown - to Troy, to incite jealousy in his father and to plot "something bad" against Paris' second wife.[9] He fell in love with her, and she "received him warmly". Paris, discovering this, killed him, not recognizing his own son. Other versions state Oenone sent him to guide the Achaean armies to Troy.[10][11] Corythus was alternatively said to be the son of Helen and Paris,[12] who died along with his two brothers when a roof collapsed in Troy.[13]