Briseus

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Chryse; both were towns in the Troad.^[2] Pedasus was said by Homer to be Lelegian settlement, ruled by the Lelegian king Altes. Thus, Briseus may also have been a Lelegian. Other sources say that Briseus was a priest of Lyrnessus. According to Dictys Cretensis, Briseus hanged himself when he lost his daughter.^[3]

Notes

^ Homer, Iliad, 2. 689
^ Eustathius on Homer, 77. 30
^ Dictys Cretensis, 2. 17

References

Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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[1] Homer, Iliad, 2. 689

[2] Eustathius on Homer, 77. 30

[3] Dictys Cretensis, 2. 17

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