Aethlius
Aethlius or Aithlios (Ancient Greek: Ἀέθλιος means "winning the prize") or Aethnos[1] was, in Greek mythology, the first king of Elis.[2]
Family
Aethlius was the son of Zeus and Protogeneia (daughter of Deucalion),[3] and was married to Calyce by whom he fathered Endymion.[4] According to some accounts, Endymion was himself a son of Zeus and first king of Elis.[5] Other traditions again made Aethlius a son of Aeolus, who was called by the name of Zeus.[6]
Mythology
Aethlius led
Idaean Dactyls and it was from his name that the adversaries are called athletes. After Aethlius, his sons Epeius and then Endymion, Alexinus and Oenomaus were each in charge of the sacrifices connected with the festival.[7]
Notes
- ^ Conon, Narrations 14
- ^ Pausanias, 5.1.2
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 155
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aethlius (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 51, archived from the original on 2010-06-08, retrieved 2007-11-04
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.5
- ^ Pausanias, 5.8.1
- ^ Eusebius, Chronography 69
References
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- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aethlius (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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