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RYPES (Ancient city) EGIALIA
Myscellus (Muskellos, or Muskelos), a native of Rhypes, one of the twelve divisions
of Achaia, and, according to Ovid (Metam. xv. 15) a Heraclide, and the son of
an Argive named Alemon. He led the colony which founded Crotona, B. C. 710. They
were assisted in founding the city by Archias, who was on his way to Sicily. The
colony was led forth under the sanction of the Delphic oracle, Myscellus having
previously been to survey the locality. He was so much better pleased with the
site of Sybaris, that on his return he made an unsuccessful attempt to persuade
the Delphic god to allow the colonists to select Sybaris as their place of settlement.
Respecting the choice offered to Archias and Myscellus by the oracle, and the
selection which each made, see Archia.
(Strab. vi., viii.; Dionys. ii.; Schol. ad Arist. Equit. 1089; Suidas s. v. Muskelos)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited July 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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