Dicaeus (mythology)
In
Ancient Greek: Δίκαιος) was a son of Poseidon[1] and brother was Syleus.[2] They lived near the Mountain Pelion in Thessaly.[2]
Mythology
Dicaeus hosted
Herakles, Dicaeus was a just man, which was suggested by the very literal meaning of his name (Δίκαιος = Just).[2]
The Dicaea city in Thrace was named after him.[1]
Notes
References
- 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.
- 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.