Bebryker (Bithynia)

The Bebrykers or Bebrykes ( Greek  Βεβρύκης ) were a tribe of Asia Minor who settled in Bithynia and Mysia .

The region was called Bebrykia until the 8th century BC. The Bithynians invaded and destroyed the people. According to Strabo , the Bebryk were of Thracian origin.

In the legend, depending on the source, the hero Bebryx or the Danaide Bebryke are named as namesake . The people are best known from the Argonauts legend, where Polydeukes defeated the Bebryk king Amykos in a fist fight.

literature

• Walther Ruge : Bebrykes 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 180 f.
• Konrat Ziegler : Bebrykes 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 851.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Bürchner : Bebrykia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 181.
2. ↑ Strabon , Geographika 7,295; 12,541.
3. ↑ August Schultz : Bebryx . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 754 ( digitized version ).