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]
References
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, 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, s. v. Milyai; concerning Cragus, see also Praxidikai
- ^ Ovid, Fasti, 4. 79
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)