Tenages was the most highly endowed of the Heliadae, and was eventually killed by Macareus, Candalus, Triopas and Actis. This is attributed to their jealousy of his skills at science. As soon as their crime was discovered, the four had to escape from Rhodes: Macareus fled to
Lesbos, Candalus to
Cos, Triopas to
Caria, and Actis to
Egypt.[4] Ochimus and Cercaphus, who stayed aside from the crime, remained at the island and founded the city of Achaea (in the territory of modern
Ialysos).[5] Ochimus, the eldest of the brothers, seized control over the island; Cercaphus married Ochimus' daughter and succeeded to the power. The three sons of Cercaphus,
Lindus,
Ialysus and
Camirus, were founders and
eponyms of the cities
Lindos, Ialysos and
Kameiros respectively.[6]
^There are two major conflicting stories for Aphrodite's origins:
Hesiod (Theogony) claims that she was "born" from the foam of the sea after Cronus castrated Uranus, thus making her Uranus' daughter; but
Homer (Iliad, book V) has Aphrodite as daughter of Zeus and Dione. According to
Plato (Symposium 180e), the two were entirely separate entities:
Aphrodite Ourania and Aphrodite Pandemos.
^Homer, Odyssey,
1.70–73, names Thoosa as a daughter of Phorcys, without specifying a mother.
^Most sources describe Medusa as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, though the author
Hyginus (
Fabulae Preface) makes Medusa the daughter of
Gorgon and Ceto.
Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.