Carystus or Carystos (; or , ) or Carycus, in Greek mythology, was the son of Chiron and a nymph Chariclo, brother of Hippe, Endeïs and Ocyrhoe. Carystus was the father of Zarex,Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 580 and also, a certain Aristaeus. In another version of the myth, his son Petraeus was the father of Zarax instead.Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 373 The town of Carystus on Euboea took the name from him.Greek Lyric IV: Bacchylides, fr. 45 (from Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius); Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.181; Eustathius ad Homer, p. 281
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Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Online version at the Topos Text Project.. Greek text available on Archive.org