Thessalus (son of Heracles)
Thessalos ( ancient Greek Θεσσαλός Thessalós / θesalós / ) is the son of Heracles and Chalkiope in Greek mythology . He was the father of Antiphos and Pheidippos . In Hyginus Mythographus, Thessalus is mistakenly the husband of the Chalkiope. From the narrative of Plutarch opened up Ernst Maass a Thrassa , daughter of Alkiopos , as the mother of Thessalos who was married to Heracles and equated with Chalciope. This is also expressed in the name Alkiopos / Chalkiope .
Like a number of people of the same name in Greek mythology, Thessalus was considered to be the eponym of the Thessaly landscape , which, according to the library of Apollodorus , received its name from Antiphon after he had conquered this area. According to Strabon , it was only the descendants of the Antiphon who settled the landscape from Ephyra and gave it its name. After a Scholion , Thessalus is the father of the Penestas , after whom the peasantry in Thessaly, the Penestas , is named.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Thessalos b . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 776 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 2,677 f.
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 97.
- ↑ Plutarch, quaestiones Graecae 58.
- ↑ Ernst Maass: Theokrits Dionysos explained from an inscription. In: Hermes . Volume 26, Issue 2, 1891, p. 189 ( online , accessed September 15, 2019).
- ↑ Library of Apollodor Epitome 6.15.
- ↑ Strabo 9,444.
- ↑ Scholion to Aristophanes , The Wasps 163.