In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos (Ancient Greek: Σολύμου) 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

  1. Etymologicum Magnum 721.43 under Solymoi
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Pisidia
  3. Antimachus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey 5.283
  4. Clement of Rome in Rufinus of Aquileia, Recognitiones 10. 21
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Milyai; concerning Cragus, see also Praxidikai
  6. Ovid, Fasti 4.79.

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