Overview
In Greek mythology, Caeneus was a Lapith hero of Thessaly.
Family
According to Book XII of Ovid's Metamorphoses, he was originally a woman, Caenis, daughter of Atrax.
In Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, he is briefly noted as the great father of a lesser son, Coronus, who sailed forth among the Argonauts. Caeneus was also an Argonaut in some versions. The striking mythic image of this hero is that, indomitable through his more-than-human power, his enemies the Centaurs resorted to driving him into the ground with timbers:
Myth
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