Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece by Lee E. Patterson

Author:Lee E. Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

1. Aletes’ lineage is found at Apollod., Bibl. 2.8.3. See also Paus. 2.4.3. Salmon 1984: 39 suggests that Aletes’ descent from Antiochus rather than from Hyllus, the ancestor of Temenus and his brothers, is evidence that the account of Aletes’ conquest was originally independent of that of the Return of the Heracleidae. The former may have been dealt with by Eumelus in the eighth century.

FIGURE 6.3.

Cytenium and Xanthus (Heroic Connection)

To complicate matters further, the elder Glaucus would have probably been the more appropriate one to cite as Chrysaor’s father. On the one hand, Chrysaor was known to an Apollonius of Aphrodisias (date unknown) as an important colonizing figure in Caria.40 Basing his account on Apollonius, Stephanus of Byzantium provides information about a Carian city called Chrysaoris, which was “the first of the cities founded by the Lycians.”41 A Lycian Chrysaor is implied here and by extension his descent from the Homeric Glaucus (son of Hippolochus), who along with Sarpedon leads the Lycians in the Iliad (2.876–877). On the other hand, in reference to another Carian city, Mylasa, Stephanus mentions the eponymous founder, Mylasus, and gives the following lineage for him: son of Chrysaor son of Glaucus son of Sisyphus son of Aeolus.42 This pattern recurs in early Greek myth: a king, himself a ktists, or founder (e.g., Chrysaor), has sons who go on to found more cities (e.g., Mylasus). As with accounts of the Ionian migrations, this aetiology of Mylasa is probably quite old, apparently from a source other than Apollonius, unless the latter had confused his Glauci.

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