Sipylos (son of Amphion)
In Greek mythology, Sipylos is a Niobide, a son of Niobe and Amphion .
It is mentioned in the niobid catalogs of the libraries of Apollodorus and Hyginus and in Ovid's Metamorphoses . Like almost all children of Niobe, he was killed with arrows by Apollo and Artemis . In the Metamorphoses it is described how he falls from the horse, hit by an arrow in the neck.
Girolamo Fracastoro derives the term syphilis from Sipylos for the sexually transmitted disease that is rampant in Italy, France and Spain.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 5, 6.
- ^ Hyginus : Fabulae 11, 69.
- ^ Ovid : Metamorphoses 6, 218 ff.
- ↑ Girolamo Fracastoro: Syphilis, sive morbi gallici, libri tres, ad Petrum Bembum . 1530.