Lelex from Naryka

Lelex from Naryka ( ancient Greek Λέλεξ or Λέλεγες , the eloquent ) is named by Ovid among the participants in the hunt for the Calydonian boar .

Lelex came from the town of Naryka in the Lokris and told the story of Philemon and Baucis , who were worshiped as gods in Phrygia in the shape of two trees. As a respected elderly person, he vouched for the truth of the story.

swell

• Ovid, Metamorphoses , 8, 300 and 8, 617-724.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Lelex 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 1937 ( digitized version ).