Maron

(Μάρων).

1. A son of Evanthes (some also call him a son of Oenopion, Seilenus. or of Bacchus, and a pupil of Seilenus, Nonn. Dionys. 14.99; Eurip. Cyclop. 141, &c.), and grandson of Dionysus and Ariadne, was a priest of Apollo at Maroneia in Thrace, where he himself had a sanctuary. He was the hero of sweet wine, and is mentioned among the companions of Dionysus. (Hom. Od. 9.197, &c.; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 1615, 1623; Philostr. Her. 2.8; Athen. 1.33; Diod. 1.18.)

2. A son of Orsiphantus, and brother of Alpheius, a Spartan hero, who had fallen at Thermopylae, and was afterwards honoured with a heroum at Sparta. (Hdt. 7.227; Paus. 3.12.7.) [L.S]

In Homer, the hero of sweet wine, son of Evanthes and priest of Apollo in Maronea in Thrace. He gave Odysseus the cask which the hero carried with him to the Cyclops (Odyss. ix. 197).