Pergamos (mythology)
Pergamos ( ancient Greek Πέργαμος ) is the youngest son of Neoptolemus , son of Achilles , and Andromache in Greek mythology . His brothers were Molossos and Pielos .
According to legend, Pergamos, accompanied by his mother, went to Asia Minor with an army and there defeated Areios , the ruler of Teuthrania , in a battle . Then he is said to have given the city his name: Pergamon . A heroon was set up for his mother in this city after her death .
In a Scholion to Virgil's Eclogues, Servius mentions a fragment of the story of Pergamos handed down by Euphorion , according to which the latter had rushed to the aid of Eurypylos ' son , Grynos, and supported him in the fight against hostile neighbors. Out of gratitude, Grynos named a city under his rule after Pergamos.
All of these tales, set in Asia Minor, seem to have entered Greek mythology late. Before the 3rd century BC The figure cannot be grasped. Nevertheless, Pergamos was venerated in the city of his name, in Pergamon, as the hero eponymos , coin images, even if it was not until Roman times, bore his image and there was a Heroon of Pergamos in the city. However, compared to the importance of the Telephos for the history of the city's foundation, it remained in the background. Nevertheless, Mithridates VI. celebrate in Pergamon as the new founding hero, the second Pergamos.
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer: Pergamos 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 1958 f. ( Digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Pausanias 3:20 , 8.
- ↑ Pausanias 1,11,1, who gives here the second name of Neoptolemus, Pyrrhus .
- ↑ Pausanias 1,11,2.
- ^ Servius, Commentarius in Vergilii eclogas 6,72 .
- ↑ Elizabeth Kosmetikatou: The Attalids of Pergamon . In: Andrew Erskine (Ed.): A Companion to the Hellenistic World . Blackwell Pub. Lt, Oxford - Malden (MA) 2003, ISBN 0-63-12253-74 , p. 168.
- ↑ Christopher Prestige Jones: New heroes in antiquity: from Achilles to Antinous . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (MA) 2010, ISBN 0-67-40358-60 , p. 36.