Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Autonous (Αὐτόνοος) was the son of Melaneus husband of Hippodamia was father to Anthus Erodius Schoenous Acanthus and Acanthis and an owner of a large herd of horses. The land they lived in produced no crops but only rushes and thistles that’s why all the children of Autonous were named after such plants. Erodius who loved his father’s horses the most pastured them on grassy meadows but one day Anthus drove them out of their familiar pastures.