Listed 100 (total found 159) sub titles with search on: Homeric world for wider area of: "WEST GREECE Region GREECE" .
CHALKIS (Ancient city) ILIA
It is mentioned by Homer (Od. 15.295).
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Astyocheia, mother of Tlepolemus, came from Ephyre (Il. 2.659) where Odysseus went in search of a poison for his arrows (Od. 1.259).
EGES (Ancient city) ACHAIA
An Achaean town near the Crathis river with a temple of Poseidon, that is mentioned by Homer (Il. 8.203).
FIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
A town of Elis situated on the shore of the Iardanus river and near the Pisatis border (Il. 7.135, Od. 15.297).
ICHALIA (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Homer's references about Oechalia: Il. 2.596, 730, Od. 8.224, 21.13-33.
AKARNANIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
..and held the mainland and dwelt on the shores over against the isles.. Then wise Laertes answered him: I would, O father Zeus, and Athena, and Apollo, that in such strength as when I took Nericus, the well built citadel on the shore of the mainland..
ACHELOOS (River) ETOLOAKARNANIA
According to Homer, the Sirens were two (Od. 12.52), while the writers in the later times mention three or four. They dwelt between the island of Aeaea and Scylla and they beguiled with their excellent voice the sailors, whom they murdered (Od. 12.39 & 52).
(Seirenes). The daughters of Phorcys, according to later legend of Achelous, and one of the Muses. In Homer there are two, in later writers, three, called Ligea, Leucosia, and Parthenope, or Aglaopheme, Molpe, and Thelxiepea. Homer describes them as dwelling between Circe's isle and Scylla, on an island, where they sit in a flowery meadow, surrounded by the mouldering bones of men, and with their sweet song allure and infatuate those that sail by. Whoever listens to their song and draws near them never again beholds wife and child. They know everything that happens on earth. When Odysseus sailed past, he had stopped up the ears of his companions with wax, while he had made them bind him to the mast, that he might hear their song without danger. Orpheus protected the Argonauts from their spell by his own singing. As they were only to live till some one had sailed past unmoved by their song, they cast themselves into the sea, on account either of Odysseus or of Orpheus, and were changed to sunken rocks. When the adventures of Odysseus came to be localized on the Italian and Sicilian shore, the seat of the Sirens was transferred to the neighbourhood of Naples and Sorrento, to the three rocky and uninhabited islets called the Sirenusae, the Sirenum scopuli of Vergil, or to Capri, or to the Sicilian promontory of Pelorum. There they were said to have settled, after vainly searching the whole earth for the lost Persephone, their former playmate in the meadows by the Achelous; and later legend also assigned this at the time when they in part assumed a winged shape. They were represented as great birds with the heads of women, or with the upper part of the body like that of a woman, with the legs of birds, and with or without wings. At a later period they were sometimes regarded as retaining their original character of fair and cruel tempters and deceivers. But they are more generally represented as singers of the dirge for the dead, and they were hence frequently placed as an ornament on tombs; or as symbols of the magic of beauty, eloquence, and song, on which account their sculptured forms were seen on the funeral monuments of fair women and girls, and of orators and poets-- for instance, on those of Isocrates and Sophocles. The National Museum at Athens contains several examples of stone Sirens, not as reliefs, but as separate figures; and a funeral monument of this type may be noticed on a vase in the British Museum, where the Siren is standing on a pillar and playing the lyre.
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Siren Aglaope : Perseus Encyclopedia
Sirens : Various WebPages
ALFIOS (River) ILIA
Homer also mentions the river as a deity, that begat Orsilochus, father of Diocles and grandson of Crethon and Orsilochus (Il. 2.592, 5.545, Od. 3.489).
Alpheius or Alpheus (Alpheios or Alpheos), the god of the river Alpheius in Peloponnesus, a son of Oceanus and Thetys (Pind. Nem. i. l; Hes. Theog. 338). According to Pausanias (v. 7.2) Alpheius was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa, but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse, and metamorphosed herself into a well, whereupon Alpheius became a river, which flowing from Peloponnesus under the sea to Ortygia, there united its waters with those of the well Arethusa (Comp. Schol. ad Pind. Nem. i. 3). This story is related somewhat differently by Ovid (Met. v. 572, &c.). Arethusa, a fair nymph, once while bathing in the river Alpheius in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the god; but Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia (Comp. Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. x. 4; Virg. Aen. iii. 694; Stat. Silv. i. 2, 203; Theb. i. 271, iv. 239; Lucian, Dial. Marin. 3). Artemis, who is here only mentioned incidentally, was, according to other traditions, the object of the love of Alpheius. Once, it is said, when pursued by him she fled to Letrini in Elis, and here she covered her face and those of her companions (nymphs) with mud, so that Alpheius could not discover or distinguish her, and was obliged to return (Paus. vi. 22.5). This occasioned the building of a temple of Artemis Alphaea at Letrini. According to another version, the goddess fled to Ortygia, where she had likewise a temple under the name of Alphaea (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. ii. 12). An allusion to Alpheius' love of Artemis is also contained in the fact, that at Olympia the two divinities had one altar in common (Paus. v. 14.5 ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. v. 10). In these accounts two or more distinct stories seem to be mixed up together, but they probably originated in the popular belief, that there was a natural subterraneous communication between the river Alpheius and the well Arethusa. For, among several other things it was believed, that a cup thrown into the Alpheius would make its reappearance in the well Arethusa in Ortygia (Strab. vi., viii.; Senec. Quaest. Nat. iii. 26). Plutarch (de Fluv. 19) gives an account which is altogether unconnected with those mentioned above. According to him, Alpheius was a son of Helios, and killed his brother Cercaphus in a contest. Haunted by despair and the Erinnyes he leapt into the river Nyctimus which hence received the name Alpheius.
This text is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
LEPREON (Ancient city) ILIA
She was the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus (Il. 5.370).
Dione, a female Titan, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (Hesiod. Theog. 353), and, according to others, of Uranus and Ge, or of Aether and Ge (Hygin. Fab. Praef.; Apollod. i. 1.3). She was beloved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite (Apollod. i. 3. sec; i.; Hornm. Il. v. 370, &c.). When Aphrodite was wounded by Diomedes, Dione received her daughter in Olympus, and pronounced the threat respecting the punishment of Diomedes (Hom. Il. v. 405). Dione was present, with other divinities, at the birth of Apollo and Artemis in Delos. (Hom. Hymn. in Del. 93). At the foot of Lepreon, on the western coast of Peloponnesus, there was a grove sacred to her (Strab. viii.), and in other places she was worshipped in the temples of Zeus (Strab. vii.). In some traditions she is called the mother of Dionysus (Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 177; Hesych. s. v. Bakchou Diones). There are three more mythical personages of this name (Apollod. i. 2.7; Hygin. Fab. 83; Pherecyd.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Dione. A female Titan, loved by Zeus, by whom she became the mother of Aphrodite, who is hence called Dionaea and sometimes even Dione. Hence Caesar is called Dionaeus Caesar, because he claimed descent from Venus (Aphrodite).
PLEVRON (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
The Curetes were dwelling in Aetolia before the Trojan War and they were driven away from this land by the Aetolians.
Homer mentions a battle between the Curetes and the Aetolians in Calydon (Il. 9.529, also see 9.549 & 589). Strabo refers to the Curetes as well (Strab. 10,3,1).
AGRINION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Thersites, son of Agrius, was the ugliest of all the Greeks in the war of Troy, lame, hump-back and impudent and was hateful to Achilles and to Odysseus because of his insolent behaviour (Il. 2.212-271). Homer calls him "akritomythos" (= "of reckless speech") (Il. 2.246).
The son of Agrius. He was the most deformed man and impudent talker among the Greeks at Troy. According to the later poets he was killed by Achilles, because he had ridiculed him for lamenting the death of Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons.
Thersites : Perseus Project
EPII LAND (Ancient country) ILIA
Automedon and his father, Diorus, fought at the Trojan War. Automedon was the charioteer of Achilles.
Automedon. Son of Diores; the comrade and charioteer of Achilles, and afterwards of Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
An Aetolian, who was slain by Hector (Il. 5.706).
The son of Ochesius, who was slain by Ares (Il. 5.842).
An Aetolian, who was slain by Hector (Il. 5.706).
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
He was the son of Agasthenes, grandson of Augeias and the fourth leader of the Elean ships sent against Troy (Il. 2.623). He was the father of Amphimachus II, whom Polexenus, after his return from Troy, named after Amphimachus I, son of Cteatus, who was killed in Troy (Paus. 5,3,4).
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
He was the son of Cteatus and Theronice, grandson of Actor, king of the Epeians of Elis and leader of the Eleans against Troy with 20 ships (Il. 2,620), who was slain by Hector (Il. 13.185, 206). He reigned jointly with Agasthenes and Thalpius (Paus. 5,3,3).
Amphimachus (Amphimachos). A son of Cteatus and Theronice, and grandson of Actor or of Poseidon. He is mentioned among the suitors of Helen, and was one of the four chiefs who led the Epeians against Troy (Apollod. iii. 10.8; Paus. v. 3.4; Hom. Il. ii. 620). He was slain by Hector. (Il. xiii. 185, &c.)
He was the son of Eurytus and Theraephone, grandson of Actor (Il. 2.620). He reigned jointly with Agasthenes and Amphimachus in Elis (Paus. 5,3,3).
KALYDON (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Thoas, son of Andraemon and Gorge and father of Aemon, took power after the death of his father, and led the Aetolians with 40 ships against Troy (Il. 2.638, Od. 14.499).
Thoas. The son of Andraemon and Gorge. He was king of Calydon and Pleuron, in Aetolia, and sailed with forty ships against Troy.
Thoas: Perseus Project
VOUPRASSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Diores, son of Amarynceus and leader of the Epeians in the Trojan War, was slain by Peiros (Il. 2.622, 4.518)
The leader of 10 ships of a total of 40, which were sent by the Eleans against Troy (Paus. 5,3,4).
Diores: Perseus Project
ALISSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Alesium participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.617).
ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Arene participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.591, 11.723).
CHALKIS (Ancient city) NAFPAKTOS
Chalcis, city of Aetolia, participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.639).
EGHION (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Aegium participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.574).
EGIRA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Hyperesia participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.565, Od. 15.254).
ELIKI (Ancient city) EGIALIA
Helice participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. The poet calls it "broad" (Il. 2.575, 8.203).
ELOS (Ancient city) ILIA
Helus is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships and participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Nestor (Il. 2.594).
EPY (Ancient city) ILIA
The city of Aepy participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. It belonged to the territory of Nestor (Il. 2.592).
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
The Aetolians participated in the Trojan War with 40 ships under the leadership of Thoas (Il. 2.638 & 644). Aetolian cities mentioned in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships are: 1. Calydon, 2. Pleuron, 3. Olenus, 4. Pylene, 5. Chalcis.
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Elis participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.615).
KALYDON (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
Calydon participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.640). The poet calls it "rocky" (Il. 2.640), "steep" (Il. 13.217, 14.116), "lovely" (Il. 9.531), fertile, rich land (9.577), and "great city" (Il. 9.589). He also mentions that the city was besieged by the Curetes, when Meleager, embittered because of the curses of his mother, retreated from the battle, which was taking place in the claim of the head and the skin of the Calydonian boar (Il. 9.580 & 589).
MYRSINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Myrsinus participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.616).
OLENOS (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Olenus, an Aetolian city, participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.639)
PLEVRON (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Pleuron participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.639).
PYLINI (Ancient city) NAFPAKTOS
Pylene, city of Aetolia, participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.639).
THRYON (Ancient city) GREECE
The city of Thryum, which was also called by Homer Thryoessa (Il. 11.711), participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.592).
VOUPRASSION (Ancient city) ILIA
Buprasium participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il 2.615, 11.755, 23.630).
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Hyrmine participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.616).
EPII LAND (Ancient country) ILIA
An Epeian leader (Il. 13.692).
A leader of the Epeians in the Trojan War (Il. 13.692).
ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
He was the son of Aphareus, brother of Lynceus and father of Cleopatra by Marpessa, who was the daughter of Evenus (Il. 9.557-8, also see Paus. 4,2,7).
Idas, a son of Aphareus and Arene, the daughter of Oebalus, whence he and his brother Lynceus are called Apharetides, or Aphareidae. He was married to Marpessa, and became by her the father of Cleopatra or Alcyone (Hom. Il. ix. 556. &c.; Apollod. iii. 10.3; Eustath. ad Hom.). His mother is also called Polydora, Laocoosa, or Arne (Theocrit. xxii. 206; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 151; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 511). His daughter was called Alcyone, because Marpessa was once carried off by Apollo, and lamented over the separation from her beloved husband, as Alcyon had once wept about Ceyx (Hom. Il. ix. 561; Paus. iv. 2.5). Idas carried off Marpessa, the daughter of Evenus, for whose hand Apollo also was suing, and was assisted by Poseidon, who gave him a winged chariot. Evenus, who pursued him, could not overtake him, but Apollo found him in Messene, and took the maiden from him. The two lovers fought for her possession, but Zeus separated them, and left the decision with Marpessa, who chose Idas, from feat lest Apollo should desert her if she grew old (Apollod. i. 7.8, &c.; Hom. Il. l. c.). The two brothers, Idas and Lynceus, also took part in the Calydonian hunt (Apollod. i. 8. 2; Ov. Met. viii. 305), and in the expedition of the Argonauts (Apollod. i. 9.16; Apollon. Rhod. i. 151, &c.; Orph. Argon. 178). In the latter expedition Idas killed the boar which had destroyed Idmon in the kingdom of Lycus (Hygin. Fab. 14), but when he attempted to deprive Teuthras, king of Mysia, of his kingdom, he was conquered by Telephus and Parthenopaeus (Hygin. Fab. 100). The most celebrated part of the story of the Apharetidae is their fight with the Dioscuri, with whom they had grown up from their childhood. Once, so the story runs, the Aphareidae and Dioscuri conjointly carried off some herds from Arcadia, and Idas was requested to divide the booty into equal parts. He thereupon divided a bull into four parts, declaring that he who should have eaten his quarter first should have half the booty, and the one who should finish his next should have the other half. Idas himself not only devoured his own quarter, but also that of his brother, and then drove away the whole herd into Messenia. The Dioscuri, however. dissatisfied with this mode of proceeding, marched into Messenia, carried off the Arcadian oxen, together with much other booty made in Messenia, and lay in ambush in a hollow oak tree to wait for Idas and Lynceus. The latter, whose eves were so keen that he could see through every thing, discovered Castor through the trunk of the oak, and pointed him out to Idas, who killed him. Polydeuces, in order to avenge his brother, pursued them and ran Lynceus through with his spear. Idas, in return, struck Polydeuces with a stone so violently, that he fell and fainted; whereupon Zeus slew Idas with a flash of lightning. (Apollod. iii. 11. 2; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 511, 549; Ov. Fast. v. 700, &c.) This fight between the Aphareidae and the Dioscuri, which is placed by some writers in Messenia, by others in Laconia, and by Ovid in the neighbourhood of Aphidna, is related, with sundry variations, by Theocritus (xxii. 137, &c.), Pindar (Nem. x. 60, &c.; comp. Paus. iv. 2.4, 13.1), and Hyginus (Fab. 80). The tomb of the Aphareidae was shown at Sparta as late as the time of Pausanias (iii. 13.1), who, however, thinks that in reality they had been buried in Messenia, where the fight had taken place. They were represented in a painting, together with their father Aphareus, in a temple at Messene. (Paus. iv. 31,9). Idas alone was represented on the chest of Cypselus in the act of leading Marpessa out of the temple of Apollo, who had carried her off. (Paus. v. 18.1)
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The son of Aphareus, was among the hunters of the Caledonian boar, and was also one of the Argonauts. According to the old legend, he was so sharp-sighted as to have been able to see through the earth, and also to distinguish objects at the distance of many miles. He was slain by Pollux. (See Dioscuri.)
Idas and Lynceus (Lunkeus). The sons of Aphareus of Messenia and of Arene; two brothers as heroic and inseparable as their cousins Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces). The nymph Marpessa, daughter of the Acarnanian river-god Euenus, was wooed by Apollo, when Idas carried her off in a winged chariot given him by Poseidon. When Apollo overtook the fugitives in Messenia, Idas, who was then the strongest of living men ( Hom. Il.ix. 556), stretched his bow against Apollo. Zeus interposed and gave the girl her choice of suitors; she decided in favour of the mortal, as she feared that Apollo would desert her. After that the god detested her; and both she and her beautiful daughter Cleopatra or Alcyone, wife of Meleager, and also their daughter, all died young, and brought misfortune on those that loved them. Idas and Lynceus, who could see even into the heart of the earth, joined in the Calydonian hunt and the Argonautic expedition. They met their deaths fighting Castor and Pollux, with whom they had been brought up. As they were all returning from a raid into Arcadia, Idas was appointed to divide the cattle they had captured; he divided an ox into four portions and decided that whosoever devoured his portion first was to have the first half of the spoil, and he who finished his next, the second half. He finished his own and his brother's share first, and then drove the cattle away. The Dioscuri were enraged and hid themselves from the brothers in a hollow oak-tree; but the keen sight of Lynceus detected their lurking-place, and Idas stabbed Castor in the tree. Thereupon Pollux pierced Lynceus through, while Idas was slain by the lightning of Zeus. For another account of the origin of the quarrel, see Dioscuri at ancient Amyclae.
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EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
Mulius was married to the daughter of Augeias, Agamede, who knew all the medicinal herbs (Il. 11,737).
Agamede was the mother of Velus, Actor and Dictyus by Poseidon.
Agamede. A daughter of Augeias and wife of Mulius, who, according to Homer (Il. xi. 739), was acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth. Hyginus (Fab. 157) makes her the mother of Belus, Actor, and Dictys, by Poseidon.
Admetus, son of Augeias (Paus. 10.25.5)
Ilus, a son of Mermerus, and grandson of Jason and Medeia. He lived at Ephyra, between Elis and Olympia; and when Odysseus came to him to fetch the poison for his arrows, Ilus refused it, from fear of the vengeance of the Gods. (Hom. Od. i. 259, ii. 328; Eustath. ad Hom.; Strab. viii.)
EGIRA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
A son of Mantius and grandson of Melampus. He became a seer of Apollo after Amphiaraus was dead (Od. 15.249).
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Father of Clytomedes (Il. 23.634).
He was the son of Enops and was defeated by Nestor in boxing (Il. 23.634).
An Aetolian, father of Periphas (Il. 5.843).
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
He was the son of Hypeirochus, who dwelt in Elis and was slain by Nestor of Pylos because he had tried to steal his cows (Il. 11.672).
KALYDON (Ancient city) IERA POLIS MESSOLONGIOU
He was a son of Portheus, brother of Agrius and Oeneus (Il. 14.117).
PISSA (Ancient city) ANCIENT OLYMPIA
He was the son of Pelops by Hegesandra, and father of Iphiloche (Od. 4.10).
SALMONI (Ancient city) ILIA
Salmoneus, son of Aeolus by Enarete, was the father of Tyro by Alcidice (Od. 11.236). He was said to be the founder of the city.
Salmoneus. Son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother of Sisyphus. He originally lived in Thessaly, but emigrated to Elis, where he built the town of Salmone. His presumption and arrogance were so great that he deemed himself equal to Zeus, and ordered sacrifices to be offered to himself; nay, he even imitated the thunder and lightning of Zeus, but the father of the gods killed him with his thunderbolt, destroyed his town, and punished him in the lower world. His daughter Tyro bore the patronymic Salmonis.
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Alcidice (Alkidike), the daughter of Aleus, and wife of Salmoneus, by whom she had a daughter, Tyro. Alcidice died early, and Salmoneus afterwards married Sidero. (Diod. iv. 68; Apollod. i. 9.8)
YRMINI (Ancient city) ILIA
Cteatus and Eurytus were called Moliones and Actoriones because they were the sons of Molione and Actor (Od. 11.709 & 750). They were slain by Heracles, because they were rivals in the war against Augeas (Paus. 2,15,1).
Molionidae, (Molionidai) and Moliones. Eurytus and Cteatus, the sons of Actor (whence they were also called Actoridae), or else of Poseidon and Molione. (Homer [ Il.xi. 750] calls them by the dual and double name Actorione Molione.) As boys they fought against Nestor and the men of Pylos. When they had grown up, they defeated the army of Heracles that threatened their uncle Augeas, but were killed by the former near Cleonae in Argolis. In Homer their sons Thalpius and Antimachus are the chieftains of the Epeians before Troy. A later legend describes them as having only one body but two heads.
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Molionides : Perseus Encyclopedia
He was the son of Actor or Poseidon by Molione, brother of Cteatus (Il. 2.621), with whom he undertook an expedition against the Pylians and Nestor in order to help Augeas (Il. 11.709).
Eurytus, a son of Actor and Molione of Elis. (Hom. Il. ii. 621; Apollod. ii 7.2; Paus. ii. 15.1; Eurip. Iph. Aul. 270).
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He was the son of Actor or Poseidon by Molione, brother of Eurytus, with whom he undertook an expedition against the Pylians and Nestor as help to Augeas (Il. 2.621, 11.709).
ARINI (Ancient city) ILIA
She was the daughter of Idas and Marpessa and wife of Meleager, that her parents called her Halcyone, because the lamentations of her mother for the abduction of Cleopatra by Apollo reminded of the grieved singing of the bird halcyon (= kingfisher) (Il. 9.556).
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
She was the daughter of Phylas and mother of Tlepolemus, who led the Rhodians against Troy (Il. 2.658).
SALMONI (Ancient city) ILIA
Daughter of Salmoneus and Alcidice, wife of Cretheus (see IOLCUS, ancient city). After Poseidon took the form of the river-god Enipeus, that Tyro was in love with, he laid with her and she bore to him two sons, Pelias and Neleus. To her husband Cretheus Tyro bore Aeson, Amythaon and Pheres (Od. 2.120, 11.235).
Turo. The daughter of Salmoneus and Alcidice. She was the wife
of Cretheus, and beloved by the river-god Enipeus in Thessaly, in whose form Poseidon
appeared to her, and became by her the father of Pelias and Neleus. By Cretheus
she was the mother of Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon.
Tyro : Perseus Encyclopedia
EFYRA ILIAKI (Ancient city) ILIA
He was the father of Agasthenes, Phyleus and Agamede (Il. 11.701), and son of Eleius or Helius. He was known for his stables, which Heracles cleansed (Paus. 5,1,9). He also held the Olympian games (Paus. 5,8,3).
Augeas or Augeias. Son of Helios, or, according to another account, of Phorbas, and Hermione. He was king of the Epeians in Elis, and one of the Argonauts. Besides his other possessions, for which Agamemnon and Trophonius built him a treasure-house, he was owner of an enormous flock of sheep and oxen, among which were twelve white bulls consecrated to the Sun. When Heracles, at the command of Eurystheus, came to cleanse his farm-yard, Augeas promised him the tenth part of his flock. But, the task completed, he refused the reward, on the ground that the work had been done in the service of Eurystheus. Heracles replied by sending an army against him,which was defeated in the passes of Elis by Eurytus and Cteatus, sons of Molione; but Heracles appeared on the scene, and slew the Molionidae, and with them their uncle Augeas and his sons.
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
Augeas or Augeias, a son of Phorbas and Hermione, and king of the Epeians in Elis. According to some accounts he was a son of Eleios or Helios or Poseidon (Paus. v. 1.7; Apollod. ii. 5.5; Schol. ad Apollon. i. 172). His mother, too, is not the same in all traditions, for some call her Iphinoe or Naupidame (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 41; Hygin. Fab. 14). He is mentioned among the Argonauts, but he is more celebrated in ancient story on account of his connexion with Heracles, one of whose labours, imposed upon him by Eurystheus, was to clear in one day the stables of Augeas, who kept in them a large number of oxen. Heracles was to have the tenth part of the oxen as his reward, but when the hero had accomplished his task by leading the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the stables, Augeas refused to keep his promise. Heracles, therefore, made war upon him, which terminated in his death and that of his sons, with the exception of one, Phyleus, whom Heracles placed on the throne of his father (Apolod. l. c.; ii. 7.2; Diod. iv. 13, 33; Theocrit. Idyll. 25). Another tradition preserved in Pausanias (v. 3.4, 4.1) represents Augeas as dying a natural death at an advanced age, and as receiving heroic honours from Oxyl.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Agasthenes, son of Augeas and father of Polyxenus (Il. 2.624), became king of Elis after the death of his father and reigned along with Amphimachus and Thalpius, grandsons of Actor, and perhaps with Amarynceus (Paus. 5,3,3-4).
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