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Phalanna was said to have derived its name from a daughter of Tyro. [4] It was written Phalannus in Ephorus, and was called Hippia by Hecataeus of Miletus. [4] Phalanna is mentioned by Livy as near Mylae and Gyrton during the Third Macedonian War between the Romans and Perseus of Macedon in 171 BCE. [5]
Tyro was the daughter of King Salmoneus of Elis and Alcidice. She married her uncle, King Cretheus of Iolcus, and had three sons with him, and also bore twin sons with Poseidon. Aeson, one of Tyro's son with Cretheus, was the father of Jason, a central figure in the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece. Tyro later married her paternal uncle ...
With Tyro, he fathered Aeson, Pheres, and Amythaon. [4] When Cretheus found out that Tyro had an affair with Poseidon, he left her and married Demodice. [5] He also had several daughters, namely Hippolyte, future wife of Acastus [6] (otherwise known as Astydamia [7]), Myrina who married Thoas, [8] and possibly Phalanna, eponym of Phalanna. [9]
In Greek mythology, Tyro (Ancient Greek: Τυρώ) may refer to two distinct women: Tyro, a Phoenician queen as the wife of King Agenor who named after her the newly built city of Tyre . She became the mother of his sons: Cadmus , Phoenix , Syros , Cilix , and, a daughter, Europa .
Emigrating from Aeolis with a number of Aeolians, Salmoneus founded a city in Eleia (Elis) on the banks of the river Alpheius and called it Salmonia after his own name. He then married Alcidice, the daughter of Aleus but when she died, the king took for a second wife Sidero who treated his beautiful daughter Tyro unkindly.
In Greek mythology, Tyros (Ancient Greek: Τύρος, romanized: Túros), also romanised Tyrus, is a Phoenician nymph, the civic personification of the ancient city of Tyre, in modern Lebanon. In myth, Tyros becomes a lover of the Theban hero Heracles and is associated with the creation of tyrian purple , the rare and expensive dye Tyre was ...
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Homer's Odyssey, calling her "Mycene of the fair crown" mentions her in passing, along with Tyro and Alcmene, as "women of old ... fair-tressed Achaean women". [3] Pausanias, citing the Megalai Ehoiai, says that Mycene was the daughter of Inachus and the wife of Arestor, without naming the mother. [4]