Tloos Explained

In Greek mythology, Tloos (Ancient Greek: Τλῶος) or Tlos (Τλῶς) was the eponym of Tlos, a Lycian city.

Family

Tlos was the son of Tremilus who named after himself the land he settled, Tremile, which later became Lycia.^[1] His mother was the nymph Praxidice, daughter of Ogygus, and was brother of Pinarus, Cragus^[2] and Xanthus.^[3] Tlos married his niece Chelidon, Cragus' daughter, and fathered by her Sidymos, eponymous founder of the town of Sidyma in Lycia.^[4]

Notes

1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Tlōs
2. Tituli Asiae Minoris 2.174, A.16–B2 (Greek text)
3. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Tremilē (quoting a poem by Panyassis)
4. Tituli Asiae Minoris 2.174, C.9–11 (Greek text)

References

• 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.