Dascylus, a king who ruled over
Mysia or
Mariandyne. He is presumably the
eponym of the coastal city of Dascylaeum or Dascylium (but see below). The wife of Dascylus was
Anthemoeisia, daughter of the river god
Lycus,[1] and he was the father of sons named
Lycus,
Priolas, and
Otreus. Dascylus' own father was the infamous
Tantalus.[2][3] Priolas and Otreus were both killed by
Amycus, king of Bebrycia (
Bithynia); Otreus was killed while travelling to
Troy to sue for the hand of King
Laomedon's daughter
Hesione in marriage.[4][5] Both sons have names connected with local settlements: Priola, near
Heraclea, and Otrea, on the
Ascanian Lake.
Dascylus, a son of Lycus, and grandson of the above Dascylus. He acted as a guide to the
Argonauts.[6]
Dascylus of
Lydia (fl. late 8th to early 7th century BC), named by
Herodotus as the father of
Gyges.[7]
Dascylus, father of Nacolus. His son was the
eponym of the city of Nacoleia in
Phrygia.[8]
Dascylus, son of Periaudes, eponym of
Dascylium, a town in
Caria.[9]
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
Online version at theio.com.
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.
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