Agathyllus Explained

Agathyllus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀγάθυλλος) was a Greek elegiac poet from Arcadia, who is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in reference to the history of Aeneas and the foundation of Rome.^[1]

He came into Arcadia, and, in Nesus, married his two daughters Codone and Anthemone. But he himself hastened to the Hesperian land, where he begot Romulus.^[2]

Some of his other verses are preserved by Dionysius,^[3] although he largely says the accounts of Agathyllus agree with those of another ancient writer, Cephalon.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Smith, William . William Smith (lexicographer) . Agathyllus . Smith . William . . 1 . 66 . Boston . 1867 . http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0075.html . 2008-05-06 . 2011-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110514055411/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0075.html . dead .
2. Book: Dionysius of Halicarnassus . Dionysius of Halicarnassus

   . Dionysius of Halicarnassus . The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis . Printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster . 111, 163–164 . 1758 .

3. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus]