Adriatic

Adrias ( ancient Greek Ἀδρίας ) is the eponymous hero of the Adriatic Sea in Greek mythology .

In Theopompos he is both a namesake of the Adriatic Sea as well as the founder of lying in this seaside city Adria called, he also is the father of Illyrers Ionios , the eponym of the Ionian Sea .

According to Strabo , he is the namesake of the Adriatic estuary of the Po River , after which the city is said to have been named. Eudoxos of Rhodes gives the Messapier Pauson as the son of Adriatic .

literature

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Adrias . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 83 ( digitized version ).
Karl Tuempel : Adrias. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 419.

proof

↑ Theopompos Fragment 140 from Tzetzes ad Lycophronem 631. In: Karl Müller et al. (Ed.): Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (FHG), Volume 1, p. 302.
^ Strabo 7, 317.
↑ Eudoxos of Rhodos Fragment 2 from Etymologicum magnum 18, 57. In: Karl Müller et al. (Ed.): Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG), Volume 4, p. 407.

[1] Theopompos Fragment 140 from Tzetzes ad Lycophronem 631. In: Karl Müller et al. (Ed.): Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum (FHG), Volume 1, p. 302.

[2] Strabo 7, 317.

[3] Eudoxos of Rhodos Fragment 2 from Etymologicum magnum 18, 57. In: Karl Müller et al. (Ed.): Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (FHG), Volume 4, p. 407.