Lydos (King)

Lydos is a figure in Greek mythology . He was the son of Atys , a mythical Urkönigs the Lydians , which at that time, according to Herodotus still Maiones should have been called. Lydos also became king of the Maiones, who would have renamed themselves Lydians after him. Since the barren landscape could not feed the entire population, his brother Tyrrhenus left after drawing lots with part of the Lydians the country in which Lydos ruled alone.

swell

Herodotus , Histories 1, 94; Strabon 5, 219; Tacitus , Annals 4, 55; Velleius Paterculus . Historia Romana 1, 1, 4.

literature

• Hans von Geisau : Lydos 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 800 f.