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Tyro's father Salmoneus was the brother of Athamas and Sisyphus. She was married to her uncle Cretheus , [ 4 ] King of Iolcus but Tyro loved the river god Enipeus who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union were born Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.
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.
[8] [9] According to some sources, Phoenician developed into distinct Tyro-Sidonian and Byblian dialects. By this account, the Tyro-Sidonian dialect, from which the Punic language eventually emerged, spread across the Mediterranean through trade and colonization, whereas the ancient dialect of Byblos , known from a corpus of only a few dozen ...
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 ...
Pheres was the son of Cretheus, King of Iolcus and Tyro.He was the brother of Aeson and Amythaon.He fled from Iolcus after his half-brother, Pelias, seized the throne.. Pheres married Periclymene, daughter of Minyas, [3] and became the father of Admetus, [4] Lycurgus, [5] Eidomene (wife of Amythaon), [6] Periopis (possible mother of Patroclus) [7] and Antigona (mother of Asteri
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Neleus was the son of Poseidon and Tyro, and brother of Pelias. [3] According to Pausanias, Neleus was the son of Cretheus, King of Iolcus, who was himself a son of Aeolus. [4] With Chloris, [5] Neleus was the father of Pero, Periclymenus, [6] Alastor, Chomius, Asterius, Deimachus, Epilaus, Eurybius, Eurymenes, Evagoras, Phrasius, Pylaon ...