Tyro (mythology)
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.[1][2] In other accounts, the spouse of Agenor was variously given as Telephassa,[3] Argiope,[4] Antiope,[5] and Damno.[6]
- Tyro, mother of the twins, Neleus and Pelias, by Poseidon.[7]
- Tyros, a Phoenician nymph and lover of Heracles.
References
[edit]- ^ Malalas, 2.30
- ^ Gomme, A. W. (1913). "The Legend of Cadmus and the Logographoi". JHS: 70.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.1.1
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 6 & 178; Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes fr. 21 Fowler 2000, p. 289 = FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1186
- ^ Scholiast ad Euripides, Phoenissae 5; Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.165–166
- ^ Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes, fr. 21 Fowler (2001), p. 289 = FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1186
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.8
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