Tmolos (mythology)
Jacob Jordaens : Tmolus crowns Apollo the winner in the music competition with Pan
Tmolos (Τμῶλος), Latinized Tmolus , also Timolus , is a mountain deity in Greek mythology , the personification of the mountain range of the same name in Lydia (today Boz Dağı ).
Tmolos is considered to be the husband of Omphale , he fathered with the nymph Pluto the Tantalus .
In Ovid's Metamorphoses , he appears as referee in the musical contest between Phoebus-Apollo and Pan .
Strabo († after 23 AD) names him as the first king of Lydia .
literature
- Karl Preisendanz : Tmolos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, Col. 1063 f. ( Digitized version ).
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