Listed 19 sub titles with search on: Mythology for wider area of: "TURKISH RIVIERA Region TURKEY" .
ASPENDOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Pirithous, son of Pirithous, suitor of Helen, leader of the Gyrtonians against Troy, goes to Colophon and helps to bury Calchas.
MALLOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
A diviner, son of Apollo and Manto, defeats Calchas in a trial of skill, son of Rhacius and Manto, slain by Amphilochus, son of Alcmaeon, in single combat.
Son of Amphiaraus, younger than his brother Alcmaeon, helps his brother Alcmaeon to kill their mother Eriphyle, suitor of Helen, one of the Epigoni, last king of Argos of the house of Melampus, settles among Amphilochians, altar at Athens, oracle at Mallus, shrine at Oropus, shrine at Sparta, altar of children of A. at Oropus.
MOPSOUESTIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
The son of Apollo and Manto, the daughter of Tiresias, and also
a celebrated seer. He contended in prophecy with Calchas at Colophon, and showed
himself superior to the latter in prophetic power. He was believed to have founded
Mallos in Cilicia in conjunction with the seer Amphilochus. A dispute arose between
the two seers respecting the possession of the town, and both fell in combat by
each other's hands. Mopsus had an oracle at Mallos, which existed as late as the
time of Strabo.
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
Mopsos, Mopsus : Perseus Project
LYKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Lycegenes (Lukegenes), a surname of Apollo, describing him either as the god born in Lycia, or as the god born of light. (Hom. Il. iv. 101, 119)
PATARA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Lycius (Lukios), i. e. the Lycian, a surname of Apollo, who was worshipped in
several places of Lycia, and had a sanctuary and oracle at Patara in Lycia. (Pind.
Pyth. i. 39; Propert. iii. 1. 38; Virg. Aen. iv. 143, 346, 377). It must, however,
be observed, that Lycius is often used in the sense of Lyceius, and in allusion
to his being the slayer of wolves. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. iv. 377, who gives several
other explanations of the name; Paus. ii. 9. 7, 19. 3; Philostr. Her. x. 4; Eustath.
ad Hom)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
LYKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Evander. A son of the Lycian king Sarpedon, who took part in the Trojan war. (Diod.v.79.)
Lycus. A son of Pandion, and brother of Aegeus, Nisus, and Pallas. He was expelled by Aegeus, and took refuge in the country of the Termili, with Sarpedon. That country was afterwards called, after him, Lycia (Herod. i. 173, vii. 92).
RODIAPOLIS (Ancient city) TURKEY
LYKIA (Ancient country) TURKEY
Son of Thrasyanor, father of Amphianax.
Amphianax, a king of Lycia. When Proetus was expelled from Argos by his twin-brother Acrisius, Amphianax received him at his court, gave him his daughter Anteia (some call her Stheneboea) in marriage, and afterwards led him back to Argolis, where his share in the government and Tiryns were restored to him. Some traditions called this Lycian king lobates. (Apollod. ii. 2.1; Hom. Il. vi. 157, &c.)
Lycus. A king of Lycia, who is said to have intended to sacrifice to Ares, Diomedes, who on his return fiom Troy was thrown upon the Lycian coast. But Diomedes was saved by the king's daughter Callirhoe. (Plut. Parall. Graec. et Rom. 23.)
Diodorus Siculus (v. 81) says that Xanthus, the son of Triopus, chief of the Pelasgi from Argos, settled first in Lycia, and afterwards crossed over with his followers into Lesbos, which he found unoccupied, and divided among them. This was seven generations before the flood of Deucalion.
TARSOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
...They say that when he (Triptolemus) was sent by the Argives in search of Io, who first disappeared at Tyre, he wandered through Cilicia; that some of his Argive companions separated from him and founded Tarsus; that the rest attended him along the sea-coast, and, relinquishing their search, settled with him on the banks of the Orontes; that Gordys the son of Triptolemus, with some of those who had accompanied his father, founded a colony in Gordy?a, and that the descendants of the rest became settlers among the inhabitants of Antioch. (Strab. 16.2.5)
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