Biology:Solymus

In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos (Ancient Greek: Σολύμου) may refer to two individuals:

Solymus, an 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 Ares and Caldene, daughter of Pisidus,^[1] or of Zeus and Chaldene,^[2] Calchedonia^[3] or Chalcea "the nymph".^[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.
Solymus, mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.^[6]

Notes

Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge, MA. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1933. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.