Solymus

In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos (Ancient Greek: Σόλυμος) may refer to two individuals:

Solymus, an 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 Ares and Caldene, daughter of Pisidus,[1] or of Zeus and Chaldene,[2] Calchedonia[3] or Chalcea "the nymph".[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.
Solymus, mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.[6]

Notes

Etymologicum Magnum, 721.43 under Solymoi
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Pisidia
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

Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
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.

Further reading

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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