Teucer
In
Myths
During the Trojan War, Teucer was mainly a great
After Ajax's suicide, Teucer guarded the body to make sure it was buried, insulting
Teucer eventually joined King Belus of Tyre in his campaign against Cyprus, and when the island was seized, Belus handed it over to him in reward for his assistance. Teucer founded the city of Salamis on Cyprus, which he named after his home state.[9] He further married Eune, daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, and had by her a daughter Asteria.[10]
The name Teucer is believed to be related to the name of the West Hittite God Tarku (East Hittite Teshub)—the Indo-European Storm God—a role which explains his relationship to Belus, who is associated with the Carthaginian god Baal Hammon.[11]
Local legends of the city of Pontevedra (Galicia) relate the foundation of this city to Teucer (Teucro), although this seems to be based more on the suspicions that Greek traders might have reached that area in ancient times,[12] hence introducing a number of Greek stories. The city is sometimes poetically called "The City of Teucer" and its inhabitants teucrinos. A number of sporting clubs in the municipality use names related to Teucer.
Notes
- ^ Homer, Iliad 8. 265 ff., 12.329 ff., 364 ff., 15. 442 ff. & 478 ff.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 8.320–330
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.460–480
- Fabulae114
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.30, 8.274 ff. & 14.515
- ^ Il. 12. 387
- Ajax (Sophocles)
- ^ Horace, Odes 1.7.21 ff.
- 1.619–621
- , 1.3.2
- ^ Farnell "Greece and Babylon: A Comparative History of Greek, Anatolian and Mesopotamian Religion."
- ^ Ireland in Galicia Archived 2011-05-29 at the Wayback Machine, by the Amergin University Institute of Research in Irish Studies Archived 2011-09-01 at the Wayback Machine, University of A Coruña. Access date 01-10-2010
References
- ISBN 978-0-226-30781-7.
- 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.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Edition by John Conington. London. George Bell and Sons. 1882. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes and Epodes. Edition by Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. Chicago. Benj. H. Sanborn & Co. 1919. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles edited with introduction and notes by Sir Richard Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1893. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Sophocles, Sophocles. Vol 2: Ajax. Electra. Trachiniae. Philoctetes with an English translation by F. Storr. The Loeb classical library, 21. Francis Storr. London; New York. William Heinemann Ltd.; The Macmillan Company. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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