Tmolus_(son_of_Ares)

Tmolus (son of Ares)

Tmolus (son of Ares)

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Tmolus (/ˈmoʊləs/; Ancient Greek: Τμῶλος, Tmōlos) was a mythical Greek king of Lydia and husband to Omphale. In Greek mythology, he figures as a mountain god, a son of Ares and Theogone and he judged the musical contest between Pan and Apollo. When Tmolus was gored to death by a bull on the mountain that bears his name, his widow, Omphale, became queen-regnant of Lydia. Through her, Lydian reign passed into the hands of the Tylonid (Heraclid) dynasty. He is almost certainly the same as the Tmolus who was the father of Tantalus by Plouto according to a scholion to Euripides Orestes 5.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Gantz, p. 536.

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  • Catholic Encyclopaedia (passim)
  • Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1), ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 11, tr. Arthur Golding. http://www.elizabethanauthors.com/ovid11.htm
  • Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Tmolus 1."


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