Trochilus (mythology)


In Greek mythology, Trochilus was the son of Callithyia.

Mythology

Some traditions credited either him or his mother with invention of the chariot. Tertullian informs that Trochilus was said to have dedicated his creation to Hera. Hyginus and the scholiast on Aratus relate that the constellation Auriga was thought by some to be the stellar image of Trochilus with which he was honored for his invention.
Pausanias wrote that Trochilus was a priest of Demeter and that he had to flee Argos because of the crackdown of Agenor on him and settled in Attica, where he married a woman from Eleusis and became by her father of Triptolemus and Eubuleus.