Solymus Explained

In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos (Ancient Greek: Σολύμου) may refer to two individuals:

• Solymus, an ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas (i.e the area around Solyma), in south-west Anatolia. He was a son of either Ares and Caldene, daughter of Pisidus^[1] (probably the eponym of Pisidia), or of Zeus and Chaldene,^[2] Calchedonia^[3] or Chalcea "the nymph".^[4] Solymus was said to have married his own sister Milye, also a local eponymous heroine. Milye's second husband was named Cragus,^[5] presumed eponym of the city Cragus or Mount Cragus. It is unclear whether the name Solymus was derived from a mountain by the same name (now known as Güllük Dağ) in Anatolia, or vice versa.
• Solymus, mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.^[6]

References

• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti translated by James G. Frazer. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Fasti. Sir James George Frazer. London; Cambridge, MA. William Heinemann Ltd.; Harvard University Press. 1933. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.

Further reading

• Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XV, Halbband 30, Met-Molaris lapis (1932), s. 1710; Band IIIA, Halbband 5, Silacenis-Sparsus (1927), s. 990 (German)

Notes and References

1. Etymologicum Magnum 721.43 under Solymoi
2. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
3. [Antimachus]
4. [Clement of Rome]
5. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Milyai; concerning Cragus, see also Praxidikai
6. [Ovid]