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		In Greek mythology, Porphyrion (Ancient Greek: Πορφυρίων) may refer to the following characters:


	Porphyrion, one of the Giants, offspring of Gaea, born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by their son Cronus. [1]
	Porphyrion, prince of Ephyra as son of Sisyphus, possibly by the Pleiad Merope.[2] Thus, he is the brother of Glaucus, Ornytion, Thersander, Almus and Sinon.
	Porphyrion, son of Celeus and one of the Athenian sacrificial victims for the Minotaur.[3] He may be the brother of Hesione, another sacrificial victim granting that their father is only one and the same.


Notes[edit]

	^ Hesiod, Theogony 185

	^ Scholia, on Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1553

	^ Servius on Aeneid, 6. 21




References[edit]

	Hesiod, Theogony, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.



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