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ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
Eryx (Erux). A son of Butes and Aphrodite, who, relying upon his
strength, challenged all strangers to fight with him in the combat of the caestus.
Heracles accepted his challenge after many had yielded to his superior dexterity,
and Eryx was killed in the combat, and buried on the mountain where he had built
a temple to Aphrodite.
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
EGESTA (Ancient city) SICILY
Acestes (Akestes), a son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and of a Trojan woman
of the name of Egesta or Segesta (Virg. Aen. i. 195, 550, v. 36, 711, &c.), who
according to Servius was sent by her father Hippotes or Ipsostratus to Sicily,
that she might not be devoured by the monsters, which infested the territory of
Troy, and which had been sent into the land, because the Trojans had refused to
reward Poseidon and Apollo for having built the walls of their city. When Egesta
arrived in Sicily, the river-god Crimisus in the form of a bear or a dog begot
by her a son Acestes, who was afterwards regarded as the hero who had founded
the town of Segesta (Comp. Schol. ad Lycophr. 951, 963.) The tradition of Acestes
in Dionysius (i. 52), who calls him Aegestus (Aigestos), is different, for according
to him the grandfather of Aegestus quarrelled with Laomedon, who slew him and
gave his daughters to some merchants to convey them to a distant land. A noble
Trojan however embarked with them, and married one of them in Sicily, where she
subsequently gave birth to a son, Aegestus. During the war against Troy Aegestus
obtained permission from Priam to return and take part in the contest, and afterwards
returned to Sicily, where Aeneas on his arrival was hospitably received by him
and Elymus, and built for them the towns of Aegesta and Elyme. The account of
Dionysius seems to be nothing but a rationalistic interpretation of the genuine
legend.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
LILYBAEUM (Ancient city) SICILY
A descendant of Amycus, king of the Bebryces. He was one of
the Argonants, and on passing the island of the Sirens leaped overboard in order
to swim to it, but was caught up by Aphrodite, who conveyed him to Lilybaeum in
Sicily. Here she became by him the mother of Eryx. He was renowned as a boxer.
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ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
A descendant of Amycus, king of the Bebryces. He was one of the Argonants, and on passing the island of the Sirens leaped overboard in order to swim to it, but was caught up by Aphrodite, who conveyed him to Lilybaeum in Sicily. Here she became by him the mother of Eryx. He was renowned as a boxer.
(Anchises). The son of Capys, of the royal house of Troy by both parents, ruler of Dardanus, on Mount Ida. Aphrodite loved him for his beauty, and bore him a son, Aeneas; but having, in spite of her warnings, boasted of her favour, he was (according to various versions of the story) paralyzed, killed, or struck blind by the lightning of Zeus. Vergil represents the disabled chief as borne out of burning Troy on his son's shoulders, and as sharing his wanderings over the sea, and aiding him with his counsel, till they reach Drepanum, in Sicily, where he dies, and is buried on Mount Eryx.
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
Echephron, (Echephron), a son of Heracles and Psophis, the daughter of Xanthus or Eryx. He was twin-brother of Promachus, and both had a heroum at Psophis. (Paus. viii. 24.1, 3)
The founder of Psophis, according to some, was Psophis, the son of Arrhon, the son of Erymanthus, the son of Aristas, the son of Parthaon, the son of Periphetes, the son of Nyctimus. Others say that Psophis was the daughter of Xanthus, the son of Erymanthus, the son of Arcas. Such are the Arcadian traditions concerning their kings, but the most accurate version is that Eryx, the despot of Sicania, had a daughter named Psophis, whom Heracles, though he had intercourse with her, refused to take to his home, but left with child in the care of his friend Lycortas, who lived at Phegia, a city called Erymanthus before the reign of Phegeus. Having been brought up here, Echephron and Promachus, the sons of Heracles and the Sicanian woman, changed the name of Phegia to Psophis, the name of their mother.
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