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Son of Phoroneus, the first man on earth, from Argos.
Car (Kar), a son of Phoroneus, and king of Megara, from whom the acropolis of this town derived its name Caria (Paus. i. 39.4, 40.5) His tomb was shewn as late as the time of Pausanias, on the road from Megara to Corinth. (i. 44.9). Another mythical personage of the name of Car, who was a brother of Lydus and Mysus, and was regarded as the ancestral hero of the Carians, is mentioned by Herodotus. (i. 171)
Pherecydes says concerning this seaboard that Miletus and Myus and the parts round Mycale and Ephesus were in earlier times occupied by Carians, and that the coast next thereafter, as far as Phocaea and Chios and Samos, .. were ruled by Ancaeus
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