Magnes (son of Aeolus)

In Greek mythology, Magnes (Ancient Greek: Μάγνης) was the eponym and first king of Magnesia.

Mythology

Magnes was the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion and brother of Makednos.[1] In Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, Magnes was placed in the later generation of the Deucalionides, for this time he was the son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother to Aeolian progenitors: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede.[2]

He married an unnamed naiad that bore him Dictys and Polydectes.[1][3] The mother and the sons later emigrated and colonized the island of Seriphos. Polydectes became king of the island while his brother Dictys, a fisherman would later receive Danae and her son Perseus.[4][5]

The scholiast of Euripides called Magnes' wife as Philodice and his sons Eurynomus and Eioneus.[6][7] Otherwise, Eustathius named his wife as a certain Meliboea and mentions one son, Alector and adds that Magnes called the town of Meliboea, at the foot of mount Pelion, after his wife, and the country of Magnesia after his own name.[8]

Pierus, the father of Hyacinth by the Muse Clio, was also called a son of Magnes.[9] According to Tzetzes, Linus was also a son of Magnes by Clio.[10]

Comparative table of Magnes' family

Relation	Names	Sources
		Hesiod	Scholia on Euripides	Apollodorus		Hyginus	Pausanias	Eustathius	Tzetzes
Parents	Zeus and Thyia	✓
	Aeolus and Enarete			✓
	Aeolus						✓
Siblings	Macedon	✓
	Cretheus			✓
	Sisyphus			✓
	Athamas			✓
Consorts	Philodice		✓			-	-
	Naiad nymph			✓
	Meliboea							✓
	Unknown
	Clio								✓
Children	Dictys	✓		✓
	Polydectes	✓		✓		✓
	Pierus				✓
	Eurynomus		✓
	Eioneus		✓				✓
	Alector							✓
	Linus								✓

Notes

1. Hesiod. Catalogue of Women, Fragment 3; Constantinus Porphyrogenitus. De Thematibus, 2 p. 48B.
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.7.3
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.9.6
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 2.4.1
5. Hyginus. Astronomica Book 2.12.1
6. Pausanias. Description of Greece, 6. 21. 11
7. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1760
8. Eustathius on Homer, p. 338
9. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.3.3
10. Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 831

References

• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London (1873).