Pelasgus

1. Lycaon, in Greek mythology, son of Pelasgus and Meliboea, father of Oenotrus and the mythical first king of Arcadia. (Web site)
2. He mentions also that Pelasgus (Ancient Greek: Πελασγός, the eponymous ancestor of the Pelasgians) was the father of Lycaon (king of Arcadia). (Web site)
3. A second fragment says that Pelasgus was the son of Zeus and Niobe and that his son Lycaon founded a dynasty of kings of Arcadia.

Son

1. An ancient Greek people (Pelasgi) and their king Pelasgus, son of Phoroneus the brother of Io.

Plutarch

1. Plutarch tells us that according to some historians their first king was Phaeton, one of those who came into Epirus with Pelasgus.

Asius

1. An early genealogist, Asius, describes Pelasgus as the first man, literally born of the earth to create a race of men.

Peloponnesus

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece book 8: The Arcadians say that Pelasgus was the first inhabitant of this land [Peloponnesus].

Argos

1. Hippothous 5 was, some say, son of Pelasgus 2, son of Triopas 1, king of Argos.
2. Pursued by the 50 sons of Aegyptus, the 50 daughters of Danaus seek refuge with Pelasgus, King of Argos. (Web site)

Hesiod

1. However, Hesiod says that Pelasgus was a son of the soil.

Pelasgians

1. Hesiod refers to Dodona as 'seat of Pelasgians,' while Hecataeus refers to Pelasgus as king of Thessaly. (Web site)
2. A fragment from the writings of Acusilaus asserts that the Peloponnesians were called Pelasgians after Pelasgus, a son of Zeus and Niobe. (Web site)
3. The Greek writers claimed that Pelasgus, the great ancestor of the Pelasgians was the first man. (Web site)

Arcadia

1. The first king in Arcadia is said to have been Pelasgus 1, after whom the inhabitants of the Peloponnesus were called Pelasgians. (Web site)
2. There are earth-born kings, such as Lelex and Pelasgus (Pelasgos), who ruled in Argos, Arcadia and Messenia.

Lycaon

1. She was the mother (or spouse) of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, by Pelasgus (yet other authors have Lycaon's mother as Meliboea or Dejanira). (Web site)
2. Lycaon, son of Pelasgus, and his sons (list 3.8.1), except the youngest, Nyctimus, are killed for their impiety by Zeus with thunderbolts, 3.8.1-2.

Danaides

1. The Danaides ask Pelasgus for protection when they arive, the event portrayed in The Suppliants by Aeschylus.
2. Pelasgus arrives, threatens the herald, and urges the Danaides to remain within the walls of Argos.
3. Aegyptus commanded that his sons marry the Danaides and Danaus fled to Argos, ruled by King Pelasgus.

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1. Danaides
2. Lycaon
3. History > Civilizations > Ancient Greece > Arcadia
4. Pelasgians
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