Italos
Italos or Italus ( ancient Greek Ἰταλός ) was the namesake of Italy according to ancient tradition . According to Antiochus of Syracuse , he was king of Oinotria in the southernmost part of Calabria . Aristotle writes about him in his politics : "This Italos, as they say, turned the Oinotrians, the nomads, into peasants and gave them laws, including the Syssitia, which he first introduced."
In contrast, Thucydides calls him a king of the Sicelians . Sikelerkönig, who later founded a kingdom in Latium , was also for Servius .
Italos was considered the son of Penelope and Telegonus , the son of Odysseus with Kirke . He was married to Leukaria, daughter of Latinus , or Leukania, namesake of the southern Italian landscape of the same name. Depending on the tradition, the children Auson, ancestor of the Ausonians, or Rhomos or Rhome are said to come from the connection.
literature
- Kurt Latte : Italus 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 2, Stuttgart 1916, Col. 2285 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Eustathios of Thessalonike , Commentary on Dionysios Periegetes 78, Stephanos of Byzantium sv Ἰταλία .
- ↑ Antiochus of Syracuse with Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Roman antiquities 1,12,3.
- ↑ Aristotle , Politics 1329b.
- ↑ Thucydides 6,4,2.
- ^ Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 1,2,533.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 127.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman antiquities 1,72,6.
- ↑ Plutarch , Romulus 2,1.
- ↑ Johannes Tzetzes , Scholien zu Lykophrons Alexandra 702.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman antiquities 1,72,6.