Phylonomas

Phylonome ( ancient Greek Φυλόνομη ), daughter of Nyktimos and the nymph Arkadia , is a figure in Greek mythology .

She gave birth to the twins Lykastus and Parrhasios to the god of war Ares . Fearing their father, Phylonome abandoned her in the mountains of Erymanthos (or, according to another reading, threw her into the river of the same name ).

The children were suckled by a wolf and later raised by a shepherd, who gave them the names Lykastos - Greek λύκος Lykos , wolf - and Parrhasios. (The legend shows a striking parallel here to the story of Rhea Silvia and her sons Romulus and Remus .) When the twins had grown up, they took control of Arcadia .

source

• Pseudo-Plutarch, Parallela minora 36.1.

literature

• Theodor Eisele : Parrhasios 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 1646 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Adolf Schirmer : Lykastus 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2174 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Vollmer: Complete dictionary of the mythology of all nations. Volume 2. Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1836, p. 1322 ( digitized version ).