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Mythology (8)

Founders

Hyrtacus & Arisbe

ARTAKI (Ancient city) TURKEY
Hyrtacus, (Hurtakos). A Trojan, to whom Priam gave his own first wife Arisba on marrying Hecuba. Homer makes him the father of Asius, called Hyrtacides. In Vergil, Nisus and Hippocoon are also represented as sons of Hyrtacus.

Hyrtacus (Hurtakos), a Trojan, the husband of Arisbe, and father of Asius and Nisus, who are hence called Hyrtacides (Hom. Il. ii. 837, &c.; Apollod. iii. 12,5; Virg. Aen. ix. 177, 406). A second personage of this name occurs in Virgil. (Aen. v. 492.)

Ide

Ide, a nymph by whom Hyrtacus became the father of Nisus. (Virg. Aen. ix. 177.)

Gods & demigods

Athena Iasonia

KYZIKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Iasonia, a surname of Athena at Cyzicus. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 960)

Historic figures

Adramyttus

ADRAMYTION (Ancient city) TURKEY
Son of Alyates, who was the king of Lydia, and brother of Croesus (Steph. Byz.).

Cyzicus & Cleite

KYZIKOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Cyzicus (Kuzikos), a son of Aeneus and Aenete, the daughter of Eusorus (Apollon. Rhod. i. 948; Val. Flacc. iii. 3). According to others, he was himself a son of Eusorus, and others again make him a son of Apollo by Stilbe (Hygin. Fab. 16; Conon, Narrat. 41; Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod.). He was king of the Doliones at Cyzicus on the Propontis. In compliance with an oracle he received the Argonauts kindly, when they landed in his dominion. When, after their departure, they were cast back upon the shore by a storm and landed again at night-time, they were mistaken by the Doliones for a hostile people, and a struggle ensued, in which Cyzicus was slain by Heracles or Jason. On the next morning the mistake was discovered, and the Argonauts mourned for three days with the Doliones over the death of their king, and celebrated funeral games in his honour (Apollod. i. 9.18; Conon, Narrat. 41, who gives a different account).

This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


Cleite (Kleite), a daughter of king Merops, and wife of Cyzicus. After the murder of her husband by the Argonauts she hung herself, and the tears of the nymphs, who lamented her death, were changed into the well of the name of Cleite. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 967, 1063, &c.)

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