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Ancient towns

Hyde

HYDE (Ancient city) LYDIA
A city in Lydia, beneath the Mt. Timolus (Il. 20.385).

Tarne

SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A city of Lydia at the foot of the Mt. Tmolus, afterwards called Sardes (Il. 5.44).

Gods & demigods

Chrysaor, Zeus Chrysaoreus

STRATONIKIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Chrysaor, the god with the golden sword or arms. In this sense it is used as a surname or attribute of several divinities, such as Apollo (Hom. II. xv. 256), Artemis (Herod. viii. 77), and Demeter (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 4). We find Chrysaoreus as a surname of Zeus with the same meaning, under which he had a temple in Caria, which was a national sanctuary, and the place of meeting for the national assembly of the Carians. (Strab. xiv. ; comp. Paus. v. 21.5; Steph. Byz. s. v. Chrusaoris.)

Hegemons

Nastes

KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Nomion, a Carian leader in the Trojan War (Il. 2.867).

Perseus Project

Amphimachus

Son of Nomion, a Carian leader, who was slain by Achilles (Il. 2.870).

Amphimachus. A son of Nomion, who together with his brother Nastes led a host of Carians to the assistance of the Trojans. He went to battle richly adorned with gold, but was thrown by Achilles into the Scamander. (Hom. Il. ii. 870, &c.) Conon (Narrat. 6) calls him a king of the Lycians.

Heroes

Nomion

The father of Amphimachus and Nastes (Il. 2.871).

TaIaemenes

LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Talaemenes was the father of Mesthles and Antiphus, leaders of the Maeonians. (Il. 2.865).

Borus

SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
He was the father of Phaestus from Tarne in Lydia (Il. 5.44).

Tantalus

SIPYLOS (Ancient city) LYDIA
The son of Zeus by Pluto, father of Niobe and of Pelops. He served his son Pelops as meal to the gods and, as a result, he was punished in Hades by not to being able to eat or drink as the waters of the lake, where he was placed, always receded from him as soon as he attempted to drink them and the fruits in the trees were lifted by the wind every time he tried to reach them (Od. 11.582 etc.).

   Tantalus, (Tantalos). The son of Zeus and Pluto. His wife is called by some Euryanassa, by others Taygete or Dione, and by others Clytia or Eupryto. He was the father of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe. All traditions agree in stating that he was a wealthy king, but while some call him king of Lydia, others describe him as king of Argos or Corinth. Tantalus is particularly celebrated in ancient story for the terrible punishment inflicted upon him after his death in the lower world, the causes of which are differently stated by the ancient writers. According to the common account Zeus invited him to his table, and communicated his divine counsels to him. Tantalus divulged the secrets thus intrusted to him; and he was punished in the lower world by being afflicted with a raging thirst, and at the same time placed in the midst of a lake, the waters of which always receded from him as soon as he attempted to drink them. Over his head, moreover, hung branches of fruit, which receded in like manner when he stretched out his hand to reach them.. Another account says that there was suspended over his head a huge rock, ever threatening to crush him. Another tradition relates that, wishing to test the gods, he cut his son Pelops in pieces, boiled them and set them before the gods at a repast. A third account states that Tantalus stole nectar and ambrosia from the table of the gods and gave them to his friends; and a fourth relates the following story: Rhea caused the infant Zeus and his nurse to be guarded in Crete by a golden dog, whom Zeus afterwards appointed guardian of his temple in Crete. Pandareus stole this dog, and, carrying him to Mount Sipylus in Lydia, gave him to Tantalus to take care of. But when Pandareus demanded the dog back, Tantalus took an oath that he had never received it. Zeus thereupon changed Pandareus into a stone, and threw Tantalus down from Mount Sipylus. Others, again, relate that Hermes demanded the dog of Tantalus, and that the perjury was committed before Hermes. Zeus buried Tantalus under Mount Sipylus as a punishment; and there his tomb was shown in later times. The punishment of Tautalus was proverbial in ancient times, and from it the English language has borrowed the verb "to tantalize," that is, to hold out hopes or prospects which cannot be realized. The patronymic Tantalides is frequently given to the descendants of Tantalus. Hence we find not only his son Pelops, but also Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Orestes called by this name.

This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Tantalus : Perseus Encyclopedia

Kings

Otrynteus

HYDE (Ancient city) LYDIA
King of Hyde and father of Iphition (Il. 20.384).

Amisodarus

KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
King of Caria, whose children, Atymnius and Maris, participated in the Trojan War and were killed by the sons of Nestor (Il. 16.317 & 16.328).

Amisodarus (Amisodaros), a king of Lycia (or Caria?), who was said to have brought up the monster Chimaera (Hom. Il. xvi. 328; Eustath. ad Hom.; Apollod. ii. 3.1; Aelian, H. A. ix. 23). His sons Atymnius and Maris were slain at Troy by the sons of Nestor. (Il. xvi. 317, &c.)

Lethus

LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
He was the king of the Pelasgi of Larisa, son of Teutamus and father of Hippothous and Pylaeus (Il. 2.843, 17.288).

Nations & tribes

Leleges

EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Homer refers to the Leleges and places them at the western coast of Asia Minor and especially around Pedasus and Lyrnessus opposite Lesbos (Il. 10.429, 20.96, 21.83),
According to Pausanias they belonged to Carian race and lived in Ephesus (Paus. 7,2,8).

Leleges. An ancient race, frequently mentioned with the Pelasgians as the prehistoric inhabitants of Greece. The Leleges were described as a warlike and migratory race, who first took possession of the coasts and the islands of Greece, and afterwards penetrated into the interior. Piracy was probably their chief occupation; and they are represented as the ancestors of the Teleboans and the Taphians, who were notorious for their piracies. The name of the Leleges was derived by the Greeks from an ancestor, Lelex, who is called king of either Megaris or Lacedaemon. They must be regarded as a branch of the great Indo-Germanic race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. They are spoken of as inhabiting Acarnania and Aetolia, and afterwards Phocis, Locris, Boeotia, Megaris, Elis, and Laconia, which last was originally called Lelegia; also (in Asia Minor) Ionia, the southern part of the Troad, and Caria.

This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Leleges, an ancient race which was spread over Greece, the adjoining islands, and the Asiatic coast, before the Hellenes. They were so widely diffused that we must either suppose that their name was descriptive, and applied to several different tribes, or that it was the name of a single tribe and was afterwards extended to others. Strabo (vii. p. 322) regarded them as a mixed race, and was disposed to believe that their name had reference to this (to sullektous gegonenai). They may probably be looked upon, like the Pelasgians and the other early inhabitants of Greece, as members of the great Indo-European race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people.
  The most distinct statement of ancient writers on the origin of the Leleges is that of Herodotus, who says that the name of Leleges was the ancient name of the Carians (Herod. i. 171). A later Greek writer considered the Leleges as standing in the same relation to the Carians as the Helots to the Lacedaemonians and the Penestae to the Thessalians. (Athen. vi. p. 271.) In Homer both Leleges and Carians appear as equals, and as auxiliaries of the Trojans. (Il. x. 428.) The Leleges are ruled by Altes, the father-in-law of Priam, and inhabit a [p. 155] town called Pedasus at the foot of Mount Ida. (Il. xxi. 86.) Strabo relates that Leleges and Carians once occupied the whole of Ionia, and that in the Milesian territory and in all Caria tombs and forts of the Leleges were shown. He further says that the two were so intermingled that they were frequently regarded as the same people. (Strab. vii. p. 321, xiii. p. 611.) It would therefore appear that there was some close connection between the Leleges and Carians, though they were probably different peoples. The Leleges seem at one time to have occupied a considerable part of the western coast of Asia Minor. They were the earliest known inhabitants of Samos. (Athen. xv. p. 672.) The connection of the Leleges and the Carians was probably the foundation of the Megarian tradition, that in the twelfth generation after Car, Lelex came over from Egypt to Megara, and gave his name to the people (Paus. i. 39. § 6); but their Egyptian origin was evidently an invention of later times, when it became the fashion to derive the civilisation of Greece from that of Egypt. A grandson of this Lelex is said to have led a colony of Megarian Leleges into Messenia, where they founded Pylus, and remained until they were driven out by Neleus and the Pelasgians from Iolcos; whereupon they took possession of Pylus in Elis. (Paus. v. 36. § 1.) The Lacedaemonian traditions, on the other hand, represented the Leleges as the autochthons of Laconia; they spoke of Lelex as the first native of the soil, from whom the people were called Leleges and the land Lelegia; and the son of this Lelex is said to have been the first king of Messenia. (Paus. iii. 1. § 1, iv. 1. § § 1, 5.) Aristotle seems to have regarded Leucadia, or the western parts of Acarnania, as the original seats of the Leleges; for, according to this writer, Lelex was the autochthon of Leucadia, and from him were descended the Teleboans, the ancient inhabitants of the Taphian islands. He also regarded them as the same people as the Locrians, in which he appears to have followed the authority of Hesiod, who spoke of them as the subjects of Locrus, and as produced from the stones with which Deucalion repeopled the earth after the deluge. (Strab. vii. pp. 321, 322.) Hence all the inhabitants of Mount Parnassus, Locrians, Phocians, Boeotians, and others, are sometimes described as Leleges. (Comp. Dionys. Hal. i. 17.) (See Thirlwall, Hist. of Greece, vol. i. p. 42, seq.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Leleges : Perseus Encyclopedia

Pelasgi

LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Trojan allies under the leadership of Hippothous and Pylaeus (Il. 2.840, 10.429).

Nymphs

Gygaea

LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
A nymph of the homonymous lake, mother of Mesthles and Antiphus (Il. 2.865).

Place-names according to Homer

Caystrius

EFESSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A river in Ionia, that flows near Ephesus (Il. 2.461).

Cayster, Caystrus (Kaustros, and Kaustrios, Hom. Il. ii. 461 ; Kara-Su and Kutschuk Meinder, or Little Maeander), a river of Lydia, which lies between the basin of the Hermus on the north, and that of the Maeander on the south. The basin of the Cayster is much smaller than that of either of these rivers, for the Cogamus, a southern branch of the Hermus, approaches very near the Maeander, and thus these two rivers and the high lands to the west of the Cogamus completely surround the basin of the Cayster. The direct distance from the source of the Cayster to its mouth is not more than seventy miles, but the windings of the river make the whole length of course considerably more.
  The southern boundary of the basin of the Cayster is the Messogis or Kestane Dagh. The road which led from Physcus in Caria to the Maeander, was continued from the Maeander to Tralles; from Tralles down the valley of the Maeander to Magnesia; and from Magnesia over the hills to Ephesus in the valley of the Cayster. From Magnesia to Ephesus the distance was 120 stadia (Strab. p. 663). The northern boundary of the basin of the Cayster is the magnificent range of Tmolus or Kisilja Musa Tagh, over the western or lower part of which runs the road (320 stadia) from Ephesus to Smyrna. Strabo's notice of the Cayster is very imperfect. According to Pliny the high lands in which it rises are the Cilbiana juga (v. 29), which must be between the sources of the Cayster and the valley of the Cogamus. The Cayster receives a large body of water from the Cilbian hills, and the slopes of Messogis and Tmolus. Pliny seems to mean to say that it receives many streams, but they must have a short course, and can only be the channels by which the waters descend from the mountain slopes that shut in this contracted river basin. Pliny names one stream, Phyrites (in Harduin?s text), a small river that is crossed on the road from Ephesus to Smyrna, and joins the Cayster on the right bank ten or twelve miles above Aiasaluck, near the site of Ephesus. Pliny mentions a stagnum Pegaseum, which sends forth the Phyrites, and this marsh seems to be the morass on the road from Smyrna to Ephesus, into which the Phyrites flows, and out of which it comes a considerable stream. The upper valley of the Cayster contained the Cilbiani Superiores and Inferiores: the lower or wider part was the Caystrian plain. It appears that these natural divisions determined in some measure the political divisions of the valley, and the Caystriani, and the Lower and Upper Cilbiani, had each their several mints. (Leake, Asia Minor, &c. p. 257.) The lower valley of the Cayster is a wide flat, and the alluvial soil, instead of being skirted by a range of lower hills, as it is in the valleys of the Hermus and the Maeander, abuts at once on the steep limestone mountains by which it is bounded. (Hamilton, Asia Minor, &c. vol. i. p. 541.) After heavy rains the Cayster rises suddenly, and floods the lower plains. The immense quantity of earth brought down by it was a phenomenon that did not escape the observation of the Greeks, who observed that the earth which was brought down raised the plain of the Cayster, and in fact had made it. (Strab. p. 691.) The alluvium of the river damaged the harbour of Ephesus, which was at the mouth of the river.
  The flat swampy level at the mouth of the Cayster appears to be the Asian plain (Asios leimon) of Homer (Il. ii. 461), a resort of wild fowl. (Comp. Virg. Georg. i. 383, Aen. vii. 699.) Except Ephesus, the valley of the Cayster contained no great town. Strabo mentions Hypaepa on the slope of Tmolus, on the descent to the plain of the Cayster. It was of course north of the river. The ruins at Tyria or Tyre, near the river, and about the middle of its course, must represent some ancient city. Metropolis seems to lie near the road from Ephesus to Smyrna, and in the plain of the Phyrites; and the modern name of Tourbali is supposed to be a corruption of Metropolis.

This is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Phthires

KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
A mountain in Caria (Il. 2.868).

Gygaean lake

LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
In Lydia, on the foot of the Mt. Tmolus (Il. 20.391).

Maeander river

A river between Lydia and Caria. Pausanias mentions that tarisks grew in abundance by the bank of the Maeander (Paus. 5,14,3).

  Maeander (Maiandros: Meinder or Boyuk Meinder), a celebrated river in Asia Minor, has its sources not far from Celaenae in Phrygia (Xenoph. Anab. i. 2. § 7), where it gushed forth in a park of Cyrus. According to some (Strab. xii. p. 578; Maxim. Tyr. viii. 38) its sources were the same as those of the river Marsyas; but this is irreconcilable with Xenophon, according to whom the sources of the two rivers were only near each other, the Marsyas rising in a royal palace. Others, again, as Pliny (v. 31), Solinus (40. § 7), and Martianus Capella (6. p. 221), state that the Maeander flowed out of a lake on Mount Aulocrene. Col. Leake (Asia Minor, p. 158, &c.) reconciles all these apparently different statements by the remark that both the Maeander and the Marsyas have their origin in the lake on Mount Aulocrene, above Celaenae, but that they issue at different parts of the mountain below the lake. The Maeander was so celebrated in antiquity for its numerous windings, that its name became, and still is, proverbial. (Hom. Il. ii. 869; Hesiod, Theog. 339; Herod. vii. 26, 30 Strab. xii. p. 577; Paus. viii. 41. § 3; Ov. Met. viii. 162, &c.; Liv. xxxviii. 13; Senec. Herc. Fur. 683, &c., Phoen. 605.) Its whole course has a south-western direction on the south of the range of Mount Messogis. In the south of Tripolis it receives the waters of the Lycus, whereby it becomes a river of some importance. Near Carura it passes from Phrygia into Caria, where it flows in its tortuous course through the Maeandrian plain (comp. Strab. xiv. p. 648, xv. p. 691), and finally discharges itself in the Icarian sea, between Priene and Myus, opposite to Miletus, from which its mouth is only 10 stadia distant. (Plin. l. c.; Paus. ii. 5. § 2.) The tributaries of the Maeander are the Orgyas, Marsyas, Clydrus, Lethaeus, and Gaeson, in the north; and the Obrimas, Lycus, Harpasus, and a second Marsyas in the south. The Maeander is everywhere a very deep river (Nic. Chonat. p. 125; Liv. l. c.), but not very broad, so that in many parts its depth equals its breadth. As moreover it carried in its waters a great quantity of mud, it was navigable only for small craft. (Strab. xii. p. 579, xiv. p. 636.) It frequently overflowed its banks; and, in consequence of the quantity of its deposits at its mouth, the coast has been pushed about 20 or 30 stadia further into the sea, so that several small islands off the coast have become united with the mainland. (Paus. viii. 24. § 5; Thucyd. viii. 17.) There was a story about a subterraneous connection between the Maeander and the Alpheius in Elis. (Paus. il. 5. § 2; comp. Hamilton, Researches, vol. i. p. 525, foll., ii. p. 161, foll.)

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Tmolas / Timolus mountain

A mountain in Lydia, near Sardis (Il. 2.866, 20.385).

Tmolus (Tmolos), a mountain range on the south of Sardes, forming the watershed between the basins of the Hermus in the north and the Cayster in the south, and being connected in the east with Mount Messogis. It was said to have received its name from a Lydian king Timolus, whence Ovid (Met. vi. 16) gives this name to the mountain itself. Mount Tmolus was celebrated for the excellent wine growing on its slopes (Virg. Georg. ii. 97; Senec. Phoen. 602; Eurip. Bacch. 55, 64; Strab. xiv. p. 637; Plin. v. 30). It was equally rich in metals; and the river Pactolus, which had its source in Mount Tmolus, at one time carried from its interior a rich supply of gold. (Strab. xiii. pp. 591, 610, 625; Plin. xxxiii. 43; comp. Horn. Il. ii. 373; Aesch. Pers. 50; Herod. i. 84, 93, v. 101; Ptol. v. 2. § 13; Dion. Per. 831.) On the highest summit of Mount Tmolus, the Persians erected a marble watch-tower commanding a view of the whole of the surrounding country (Strab. xiii. p. 625). The Turks now call the mountain Bouz Dagh.

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Hyllus tributary

A tributary of the river Hermus in Lydia.
It was named after Hyllus, the son of Earth (Paus. 1,36,8).

A river of Lydia, falling into the Hermus on its north side.

Asias

A fertile region in Lydia near the Caystrius river (Il. 2.461).

Mt. Sipylus

SIPYLOS (Ancient city) LYDIA
The Mt. Sipylos is mentioned by Homer (Il. 24.615).
According to Pausanias, there was a sanctuary dedicated to Mother Plastene, the Lake of Tantalus and his grave. On the peak of the mountain there was also the thone of Pelops (Paus. 5.13.7).

  Sipylus (Sipulos), a mountain of Lydia between the river Hermus and the town of Smyrna; it is a branch of Mount Tmolus, running in a northwestern direction along the Hermus. It is a rugged, much torn mountain, which seems to owe its present form to violent convulsions of the earth. The mountain is mentioned even in the Iliad, and was rich in metal. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 615; Strab. i. p. 58, xii. p. 579, xiv. p. 680.) On the eastern slope of the mountain, there once existed, according to tradition, an ancient city, called Tantalis, afterwards Sipylus, the capital of the Maeonians, which was believed to have been swallowed up by an earthquake, and plunged into a crater, afterwards filled by a lake, which bore the name of Sale or Saloe (Strab. i. p. 58, xii. p. 579; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin. v. 31; Paus. vii. 24. § 7). Pliny relates that the spot once occupied by Sipylus was successively occupied by other towns, which he calls Archaeopolis, Colpe and Lebade. Pausanias (v. 13. § 4) calls the lake the marsh of Tantalus, and adds that his tomb was conspicuous near it, and that the throne of Pelops was shown on the summit of the mountain above the temple of (Cybele) Plastene. The tops of the houses of Sipylus were believed to have been seen under the water for some time after (Paus. vii. 24. § 7); and some modern travellers, mistaking the ruins of old Smyrna for those of Sipylus, imagine that they have discovered both the remains of Sipylus and the tomb of Tantalus. Chandler (Travels in Asia Minor, p. 331) thought that a small lake of limpid water at the north-eastern foot of Mount Sipylus, not far from a sepulchre cut in the rock, might be the lake Sale; but Hamilton (Researches, i. p. 49, foll.) has shown that the lake must be sought for in the marshy district of Manissa.
  In speaking of Mount Sipylus, we cannot pass over the story of Niobe, alluded to by the poets, who is said to have been metamorphosed into stone on that mountain in her grief at the loss of her children. (Hom. Il. xxiv. 614; Soph. Antig. 822; Ov. Met. vi. 310; Apollod. iii. 5; Paus. viii. 2. § 3.) Pausanias (i. 21. § 5) relates that he himself went to Mount Sipylus and saw the figure of Niobe formed out of the natural rock; when viewed close he saw only the rock and precipices, but nothing resembling a woman either weeping or in any other posture; but standing at a distance you fancied you saw a woman in tears and in an attitude of grief. This phantom of Niobe, says Chandler (p. 331), whose observation has been confirmed by subsequent travellers, may be defined as an effect of a certain portion of light and shade on a part of Sipylus, perceivable at a particular point of view. Mount Sipylus now bears the name of Saboundji Dagh or Sipuli Dagh.

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Mt. Sipylus: Perseus Encyclopedia

Meles

SMYRNI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Meles. A small stream in Ionia, on whose banks near Smyrna Homer was said to have been born. Hence he is styled Melesigenes. One legend makes Meles, the river-god, to have been the poet's father.

Trojan Allies

Carians

KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
The Carians participated in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans (Il. 2.867, 10.428).

Trojan War

LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Larisa, a Pelasgian city near Cyme in Aeolis, participated in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans under the leadeship of Hippothous and Pylaeus (Il. 2.741).

Maeonia

LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Ancient name of Lydia (Il. 3.401).

Trojan War

MILITOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Miletus, ionian city of Caria, participated in the Trojan War on the side of the Trojans (Il. 2.868).

Trojan heroes of the Trojan War and their allies

Iphition

HYDE (Ancient city) LYDIA
He was the son of Otrynteus, who came from Hyde and was slain by Achilles (Il. 20.382).

Atymnius

KARIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
He was the son of Amisodarus, who was slain by Antilochus (Il. 16.317).

Phaestus

SARDIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
He was the son of Borus of Lydia, who was slain by Idomeneus (Il. 5.44).

Eurypylus

TEFTHRANIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
He was the son of Telephus by Astyoche, who was slain by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles (Od. 11.520).
His father was the son of Heracles by Auge, who came from Tegea and got married to the daughter of Teuthras, whom he succeeded to the throne.

Eurypylus, a son of Telephus and Astyoche, was king of Moesia or Cilicia. Eurypylus was induced by the presents which Priam sent to his mother or wife, to assist the Trojans against the Greeks. Eurypylus killed Machaon, but was himself slain by Neoptolemus. (Hygin. Fab. 112; Strab. xiii.; Paus. iii. 26. 7; Dict. Cret. iv. 14; Eustath. ad Hom.).

Trojan leaders in the War

Pylaeus

LARISSA (Ancient city) TURKEY
He was son of Lethus, grandson of Teutamus, brother of Hippothous and leader, along with the latter, of the Pelasgians from Larisa (Il. 2.842).

Hippothous

Hippothous. A son of Lethus, grandson of Teutamus, and brother of Pylaeus, led a band of Pelasgian auxiliaries from Larissa to the assistance of the Trojans. While engaged in dragging away the body of Patroclus, he was slain by the Telamonian Ajax. (Hom. Il. ii. 840, xvii. 288, &c.)

Antiphus

LYDIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Talaemenes and nymph Gygaea, leader of the Maeonians and ally of the Trojans (Il. 2.864).

Mesthles

Son of Talaemenes and nymph Gygaea, leader of the Maeonians and ally of the Trojans (Il. 2.864, 17.216).

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