Solymus
In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos was the ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas (i.e the area around Solyma), in south-west Anatolia.
He was a son of either Zeus or Ares; his mother's name is variously given as Chaldene, Caldene "daughter of Pisidus", Calchedonia or Chalcea "the nymph".[1][2][3][4] Solymus was said to have married his own sister Milye, also a local eponymous heroine. Milye's second husband was named Cragus.[5]
It is unclear whether the name Solymus is derived from a mountain by the same name (now known as Güllük Dağ) in Anatolia, or vice versa.
A possibly different Solymus is mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.[6]
Notes
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Pisidia
- Etymologicum Magnum, 721. 43, under Solymoi
- Antimachus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 5. 283
- Clement of Rome in Rufinus of Aquileia, Recognitiones, 10. 21
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Milyai; concerning Cragus, see also Praxidikai
- Ovid, Fasti, 4. 79
References
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge, MA. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1933. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Sources
- Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XV, Halbband 30, Met-Molaris lapis (1932), s. 1710; Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 990 (German)
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