Solymus

In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos was the ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas (i.e the area around Solyma), in south-west Anatolia.

He was a son of either Zeus or Ares; his mother's name is variously given as Chaldene, Caldene "daughter of Pisidus", Calchedonia or Chalcea "the nymph".[1][2][3][4] Solymus was said to have married his own sister Milye, also a local eponymous heroine. Milye's second husband was named Cragus.[5]

It is unclear whether the name Solymus is derived from a mountain by the same name (now known as Güllük Dağ) in Anatolia, or vice versa.

A possibly different Solymus is mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.[6]

References
  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Pisidia
  2. Etymologicum Magnum, 721. 43, under Solymoi
  3. Antimachus in scholia on Homer, Odyssey, 5. 283
  4. Clement of Rome in Rufinus of Aquileia, Recognitiones, 10. 21
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Milyai; concerning Cragus, see also Praxidikai
  6. Ovid, Fasti, 4. 79

Sources
  • Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XV, Halbband 30, Met-Molaris lapis (1932), s. 1710; Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 990 (German)
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