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Mythology (9)

Constellations

Founders

Lycus & Nycteus

Both of them had fled (from Euboea) because they had killed Phlegyas, son of Ares and Dotis the Boeotian, and they took up their abode at Hyria

Heroes

Syleus

AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
In Aulis, compels strangers to dig his vines, killed by Herakles.

Nycteus

YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA

Lycus

Βrother of Nycteus, regent of Thebes for Labdacus and Laius, charged by Nycteus to recover Antiope, defeated by sons of Antiope, his house at Thebes.

Heroines

Xenodoce

AVLIS (Ancient city) STEREA HELLAS
(not Xenodice), daughter of Syleus, killed by Herakles.

Historic figures

Aulis

Aulis, a daughter of Ogygus and Thebe, from whom the Boeotian town of Aulis was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. ix. 19.5.) Other traditions called her a daughter of Euonymus, the son of Cephissus. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Aulis.) She was one of the goddesses who watched over oaths under the name of praxidikai.

Hyrieus

YRIA (Ancient city) AVLIDA
Hyrieus (Hurieus), a son of Poseidon and Alcyone, was king of Hyria in Boeotia, and married to the nymph Clonia, by whom lie became the father of Nycteus, Lycus, and Orion (Apollod. iii. 10.1; Hygin. Fab. 195; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xviii. 486).

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