Hyacinthus Greek. The west wind however grew jealous of his rival in love and one day as the pair were playing discus blew the discus off course causing it to strike hyacinthus in the head killing him. The literary myths serve to link him to local cults and to identify him with apollo.
Others related that zephyrus or boreas out of jealousy deflected the discus so that it hit hyacinthus on the. According to the usual version his great beauty attracted the love of apollo who killed him accidentally while teaching him to throw the discus. Hyakinth or hyakinthos ὑάκινθος was a handsome young spartan prince son of kleio and pierus loved by the gods apollo and zephyros anemoi and in some myths the bard thamyris.
Hyacinthus was a mortal in greek mythology.
Hyacinth ˈhaɪəsɪnθ or hyacinthus is a divine hero and a lover of apollo from greek mythology. Hyacinthus was a mortal in greek mythology. The literary myths serve to link him to local cults and to identify him with apollo. His cult at amyclae southwest of sparta where his tumulus was located in classical times at the feet of apollo s statue in the sanctuary that had been built round the burial mound dates from the mycenaean era.
