Agathyllus

Agathyllus (Greek: Ἀγάθυλλος) was a Greek elegiac poet from Arcadia, who is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in reference to the history of Aeneas and the foundation of Rome.[1]

He came into Arcadia, and, in Nesus, married his two daughters Codone and Anthemone. But he himself hastened to the Hesperian land, where he begot Romulus.[2]

Some of his other verses are preserved by Dionysius,[3] although he largely says the accounts of Agathyllus agree with those of another ancient writer, Cephalon.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, William (1867). "Agathyllus". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston. p. 66.
  2. 1 2 Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1758). The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis. Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster. pp. 111, 163–164.
  3. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. 49, 72
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agathyllus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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