)
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom.
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
We are told that, in the course of
of 101 iambic verses, on the interpretation of his reign, Astrages had waged war with the Bac-
dreams ('OVELPOKPITIKOV), printed in Rigault's trians with doubtful success. (Ctes. ap. Phot. Cod.
edition of Artemidorus, in the collections of Obso- 72. p. 36, ed. Bekker. )
poeus and Servais Galle, and in J. C. Bulenger, Xenophon, like Herodotus, makes Cyrus the
de Ration. Divinat. v. 5. The poem is a compara- grandson of Astyages, but says, that Astyages was
tirely modern composition (not earlier than the succeeded by bis son Cyaxares 11. , on whose death
fourth century after Christ), and the name of the Cyrus succeeded to the vacant throne. (Cyrop. i.
author is perhaps an assumed one. Suidas (s. r. ) 5. § 2. ) This account seems to tally better with
also ascribes to the same author a treatise on the the notices contained in the book of Daniel. (v. 31,
discases of asses, and their cure. (Fabric. Bill. vi. 1, ix. l. ). Dareius the Mede, mentioned there
Gracc. iv. p. 152, v. p. 265, xi. p. 583. ) [C. P. M. ] and by Josephus (x. 11. $ 4), is apparently the saine
ASTRATEIA ('Aotpateia), a surname of Arte- with Cyaxares II. (Compare the account in the
a
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ASTYMEDES.
ASTYOCHUS.
ful.
Cyropaedeia of the joint expedition of Cyaxares war with Crete, we find him appointed admiral,
and Cyrus against the Assyrians. ) In that case, and again sent as ambassador to Rome. (Polyb
Ahasuerus, the father of Dareius, will be identical xxxiii. 14. )
(C. P. M. )
with Astvages. The existence of Cyaxares II. ASTY'NOME ('Aotuvóun), the daughter of
scems also to be recognized by Aeschylus, Pers. Chryses (whence she is also called Chryseis), a
766. But the question is by no means free from priest of Apollo. She was taken prisoner by
difficulty.
[C. P. M. ) Achilles in the Hypoplacian Thebe or in Lyrpes-
ASTY'AGES, a grammarian, the author of a sus, whither she had been sent by her father for
commentary on Callimachus, and some other trea- protection, or, according to others, to attend the
tises on grammatical subjects. (Suidas, s. v. ; Eu- celebration of a festival of Artemis. In the dis-
docia, p. 64. )
(C. P. M. ) tribution of the booty she was given to Agamem-
ASTYANASSA ('Aotvávaora), said to have non, who, however, was obliged to restore her to
been a daughter of Musaeus, and a slave of Helen, her father, to soothe the anger of Apollo. (Hom.
and to have composed poems on immodest subjects. 11. i. 378; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 77, 118; Dictys
(Suidas, s. v. ; Photius, Bill. p. 142, ed. Bekk. ) Cret. ii. 17. ) There are two more mythical per-
Her personal existence, however, is very doubt- sonages of this name, one a daughter of Niobe, and
(C. P. M. ] the other a daughter of Talaus and mother of
ASTY'ANAX ('Aotvávat), the son of Hector Capaneus. (Hvgin. Fab. 70. ) (L. S. )
and Andromache; his more common name was ASTY'NOMUS ('Artúvomos), a Greek writer
Scamandrius. After the taking of Troy the Greeks upon Cyprus. (Plin. H. N. v. 35; Steph. Byz.
hurled him down from the walls of the city to s. v. Kúpos. )
prevent the fulfilment of a decree of fate, according ASTY'NOUS ('Aotúvoos), a son of Protiaon, a
to which he was to restore the kingdom of Troy. Trojan, who was slain by Neoptolemus. (Hom. I.
(Hom. Il. vi. 400, &c. ; Ov. Met. xiii. 415; Hygin. xv. 455 ; Paus. x. 26. & 1. ) A second Astynous
Fab. 109. ) A different mythical person of the occurs in Apollodorus. (iii. 14. § 3. ) (L. S. )
name occurs in Apollodorus. (ii. 7. 8 8. ) (L. S. ) ASTY'OCHE or ASTYOCHEIA ('AoTvóyn
ASTY'DAMAS ('Agtudánas). 1. A tragic or 'AoTvó Xera). 1. A daughter of Actor, by whom
poet, the son of Morsimus and a sister of the poet Ares begot two sons, Ascalaphus and lalmenus.
Aeschylus, was the pupil of Isocrates, and accord- (Hom. I. ii. 512, &c. ; Paus. ix. 37. $ 3. )
ing to Suidas (s. v. 'AGTVð. ) wrote 240 tragedies 2. A daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra, by
and gained the prize fifteen times. His first whom Heracles, after the conquest of Ephyra, begot
tragedy was brought upon the stage in Ol. 95. 2. Tlepolemus. (Apollod. ii. 7. SS 6, 8; Hom. Il.
(Diod. xiv. p. 676. ) He was the author of an ii. 658, &c. ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 24 ; Asti-
epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anal. iii
. 329), DAMEIA. )
wbich
gave rise to the proverb Σαυτήν επαινείς 3. A daughter of Laomedon by Strymo, Placia,
üotep 'Agtvôduas hoté. (Suidas, s. v. Savrtivor Leucippe. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According
K. 7. 1. ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 43.
)
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 1697)
2. A tragic poet, the son of the former. The and Dictys (ii. 2), she was a daughter of Priam,
names of some of his tragedies are mentioned by and married Telephus, by whom she became the
Suidas (s. v. ).
(C. P. M. ] mother of Eurypylus. Three other mythical per-
ASTYDÁMEIA ('Aotudáuera), a daughter of sonages of this name occur in Apollod. iii. 12. $ 2,
Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly, by u. 5. $ 6 ; Hygin. Fab. 117.
(L. S. ]
Cleobule. She became by Heracles the mother of ASTY'OCHUS ('Aotúoxos), succeeded Melan-
Tlepolemus. (Pind. Ol. vii. 24, with the Schol. ) cridas as Lacedaemonian high admiral, in the sum-
Other accounts differ from Pindar, for Hyginus mer of 412, B. C. , the year after the Syracusan
(Fab. 162) calls the mother of Tlepolemus As- defeat, and arrived with four ships at Chios, late
tyoche, and Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 8) calls the son in the summer. (Thuc. viii. 20, 23. ) Lesbos
of Astydameia Ctesippus. (Comp. Muncker, ad was now the seat of the contest : and his arrival
Hygin. l. c. ) The Astydameia mentioned under was followed by the recovery to the Athenians of
ACAstus and ANTIGONE, No. 2, is a different the whole island. (Ib. 23. ) Astyochus was
personage.
(L. S. ] eager for a second attempt; but compelled, by the
A'STYLUS, a seer among the centaurs, who is refusal of the Chians and their Spartan captain,
mentioned by Ovid (Met. xii. 308) as dissuading Pedaritus, to forego it, he proceeded, with many
the centaurs from fighting against the Lapithae. threats of revenge, to take the general command at
But the name in Ovid seems to be a mistake either Miletus. (31—33. ) Here he renewed the Persian
of the poet himself or of the transcribers for Asbolus. treaty, and remained, notwithstanding the entrea-
(Hes. Scut. Herc. 185; ASBOLUS. ) [L. S. ] ties of Chios, then hard pressed by the Athenians,
ASTYME'DES ('Aotuunāns), a Rhodian of wholly inactive. He was at last starting to re-
distinction. On the breaking out of the war believe it, when he was called off, about mid-winter,
tween the Romans and Perseus (B. c. 171), he to join a fleet from home, bringing, in consequence
advised his countrymen to side with the former. of complaints from Pedaritus, commissioners to ex-
(Polyb. xxvii. 6. $ 3. ) After the war, when the amine his proceedings. Before this (ěTI DVTA TÓTE
Rhodians were threatened with hostilities by the epi Mantov, cc. 36—42), Astyochus it appears
Romans, Astymedes was sent as ambassador to had sold himself to the Persian interest. He bad
Rome to deprecate their anger. The tenour of his received, perhaps on first coming to Miletus, orders
speech on the occasion is censured by Polybius. from home to put Alcibiades to death ; but finding
(xxx. 4,5; Liv. xlv. 21-25. ) Three years after him in refuge with the satrap Tissaphernes, he not
wards, he was again sent as ambassador to Rome, only gave up all thought of the attempt, but on re-
and succeeded in bringing about an alliance beceiving private intelligence of his Athenian negotia-
tween the Romans and his countrymen. (Polyb. tions, went up to Magnesia, betrayed Phrynichus
xxxi. 6, 7. ) In B. c. 153, on the occasion of the his informant to Alcibiades, and there, it would
a
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391
ATAULPHUS.
a
seem, pledged himself to the satrap. (cc. 45 and 50. ) | had grown up, she lived in pure maidenhood, slev
Henceforward, in pursuance of his patron's policy, the centaurs who pursued her, took part in the
his efforts were employed in keeping his large Calydonian hunt, and in the games which were
forces inactive, and inducing submission to the re- celebrated in honour of Pelias. Afterwards, her
duction in their Persian pay. The acquisition of father recognized her as his daughter; and when
Rhodes, after his junction with the new feet, he he desired her to marry, she made it the conditior.
had probably little to do with; while to him, that every suitor who wanted to win her, should
must, no doubt, be ascribed the neglect of the first of all contend with her in the foot-race. If
opportunities afforded by the Athenian dissensions, he conquered her, he was to be rewarded with her
after his return to Miletus (cc. 60 and 63), 411 B. c. hand, if not, he was to be put to death by hier.
The discontent of the troops, especially of the This she did because she was the most swift-footed
Syracusans, was great, and broke out at last in a among all mortals, and because the Delphic oracle
riot
, where his life was endangered ; shortly after had cautioned her against marriage. Meilanion,
which his successor Mindarus arrived, and Asty-one of her suitors, conquered her in this manner.
ochus sailed home (cc. 84, 85), after a command of Aphrodite had given him three golden apples, and
about eight months. Upon his return to Sparta during the race he dropped them one after the
he bore testimony to the truth of the charges other. Their beauty charmed Atalante so much,
which Hermocrates, the Syracusan, brought against that she could not abstain from gathering them.
Tissaphernes. (Xen. Hell
. i. 1. $ 31. ) (A. #. C. ) Thus she was conquered, and became the wife of
ASTYPALAEA ('ACTUmanala), a daughter of Meilanion. Once when the two, by their embraces
Phoenix and Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus. in the sacred grove of Zeus, profaned the sanctity
She was a sister of Europa, and became by Posei- of the place, they were both metamorphosed into
don the mother of the Argonaut Ancaeus and of lions. Hyginus adds, that Atalante was by Ares
Eurypylus, king of the island of Cos. The island the mother of Parthenopaeus, though, according to
Astypalaea among the Cyclades derived its name others, Parthenopaeus was her son by Meilanion.
from her. (Apollod. ii. 7. § 1; Paus. vii. 4. & 2; (Apollod. iii. 9. & 2; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 313; Athen.
Apollod. Rhod. ii. 866; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ) iii. p. 82. )
A'SYCHIS ("Aouxis), a king of Egypt, who, 2. The Boeotian Atalante. About her the same
according to the account in Herodotus (ii. 136), stories are related as about the Arcadian Atalante,
succeeded Mycerinus (about B. c. 1012 according except that her parentage and the localities are
to Larcher's calculation), and built the propy- described differently. Thus she is said to have
laea on the east side of the temple of Hephaestus been a daughter of Schoenus, and to have been
which had been begun by Menes, and also a married to Hippomenes. Her footrace is trans-
pyramid of brick. Herodotus likewise mentions ferred to the Boeotian Onchestus, and the sanc-
some laws of his for the regulation of money tuary which the newly married couple profaned by
transactions.
[C. P. M. ] their love, was a temple of Cybele, who metamor-
ATABY'RIUS ('Atabúplos), a surname of Zeus phoed them into Lions, and yoked them to her
derived from mount Atabyris or Atabyrion in the chariot. (Ov. Met. x. 565, &c. , viii. 318, &c. ;
island of Rhodes, where the Cretan Althaemenes Hygin. Fab. 185. ) In both traditions the main
was said to have built a temple to him. (Apollod. cause of the metamorphosis is, that the husband of
iii. 2. § 1; Appian, Milhrid. 26. ) Upon this moun- Atalante neglected to thank Aphrodite for the gift
tain there were, it is said, brazen bulls which of the golden apples. Atalante has in the ancient
roared when anything extraordinary was going to poets various surnames or epithets, which refer
happen. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 159. ) (L. S. ) partly to her descent, partly to her occupation (the
ATALANTE ('Atanáytn). In ancient mytho chase), and partly to her swiftness. She was re-
logy there occur two personages of this name, who presented on the chest of Cypselus holding a hind,
have been regarded by some writers as identical, and by her side stood Meilanion. She also ap-
while others distinguish between them. , Among peared in the pediment of the temple of Athena
the latter we may mention the Scholiast on Theo- Alea at Tegea among the Calydonian hunters
critus (iii. 40), Burmann (ad Ov. Met. x. 565), (Paus. v. 19. § l, viii. 45. § 4; Comp. Müller,
Spanheim (ad Callimach. p. 275, &c. ), and Munc- Orchom. p.
of 101 iambic verses, on the interpretation of his reign, Astrages had waged war with the Bac-
dreams ('OVELPOKPITIKOV), printed in Rigault's trians with doubtful success. (Ctes. ap. Phot. Cod.
edition of Artemidorus, in the collections of Obso- 72. p. 36, ed. Bekker. )
poeus and Servais Galle, and in J. C. Bulenger, Xenophon, like Herodotus, makes Cyrus the
de Ration. Divinat. v. 5. The poem is a compara- grandson of Astyages, but says, that Astyages was
tirely modern composition (not earlier than the succeeded by bis son Cyaxares 11. , on whose death
fourth century after Christ), and the name of the Cyrus succeeded to the vacant throne. (Cyrop. i.
author is perhaps an assumed one. Suidas (s. r. ) 5. § 2. ) This account seems to tally better with
also ascribes to the same author a treatise on the the notices contained in the book of Daniel. (v. 31,
discases of asses, and their cure. (Fabric. Bill. vi. 1, ix. l. ). Dareius the Mede, mentioned there
Gracc. iv. p. 152, v. p. 265, xi. p. 583. ) [C. P. M. ] and by Josephus (x. 11. $ 4), is apparently the saine
ASTRATEIA ('Aotpateia), a surname of Arte- with Cyaxares II. (Compare the account in the
a
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390
ASTYMEDES.
ASTYOCHUS.
ful.
Cyropaedeia of the joint expedition of Cyaxares war with Crete, we find him appointed admiral,
and Cyrus against the Assyrians. ) In that case, and again sent as ambassador to Rome. (Polyb
Ahasuerus, the father of Dareius, will be identical xxxiii. 14. )
(C. P. M. )
with Astvages. The existence of Cyaxares II. ASTY'NOME ('Aotuvóun), the daughter of
scems also to be recognized by Aeschylus, Pers. Chryses (whence she is also called Chryseis), a
766. But the question is by no means free from priest of Apollo. She was taken prisoner by
difficulty.
[C. P. M. ) Achilles in the Hypoplacian Thebe or in Lyrpes-
ASTY'AGES, a grammarian, the author of a sus, whither she had been sent by her father for
commentary on Callimachus, and some other trea- protection, or, according to others, to attend the
tises on grammatical subjects. (Suidas, s. v. ; Eu- celebration of a festival of Artemis. In the dis-
docia, p. 64. )
(C. P. M. ) tribution of the booty she was given to Agamem-
ASTYANASSA ('Aotvávaora), said to have non, who, however, was obliged to restore her to
been a daughter of Musaeus, and a slave of Helen, her father, to soothe the anger of Apollo. (Hom.
and to have composed poems on immodest subjects. 11. i. 378; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 77, 118; Dictys
(Suidas, s. v. ; Photius, Bill. p. 142, ed. Bekk. ) Cret. ii. 17. ) There are two more mythical per-
Her personal existence, however, is very doubt- sonages of this name, one a daughter of Niobe, and
(C. P. M. ] the other a daughter of Talaus and mother of
ASTY'ANAX ('Aotvávat), the son of Hector Capaneus. (Hvgin. Fab. 70. ) (L. S. )
and Andromache; his more common name was ASTY'NOMUS ('Artúvomos), a Greek writer
Scamandrius. After the taking of Troy the Greeks upon Cyprus. (Plin. H. N. v. 35; Steph. Byz.
hurled him down from the walls of the city to s. v. Kúpos. )
prevent the fulfilment of a decree of fate, according ASTY'NOUS ('Aotúvoos), a son of Protiaon, a
to which he was to restore the kingdom of Troy. Trojan, who was slain by Neoptolemus. (Hom. I.
(Hom. Il. vi. 400, &c. ; Ov. Met. xiii. 415; Hygin. xv. 455 ; Paus. x. 26. & 1. ) A second Astynous
Fab. 109. ) A different mythical person of the occurs in Apollodorus. (iii. 14. § 3. ) (L. S. )
name occurs in Apollodorus. (ii. 7. 8 8. ) (L. S. ) ASTY'OCHE or ASTYOCHEIA ('AoTvóyn
ASTY'DAMAS ('Agtudánas). 1. A tragic or 'AoTvó Xera). 1. A daughter of Actor, by whom
poet, the son of Morsimus and a sister of the poet Ares begot two sons, Ascalaphus and lalmenus.
Aeschylus, was the pupil of Isocrates, and accord- (Hom. I. ii. 512, &c. ; Paus. ix. 37. $ 3. )
ing to Suidas (s. v. 'AGTVð. ) wrote 240 tragedies 2. A daughter of Phylas, king of Ephyra, by
and gained the prize fifteen times. His first whom Heracles, after the conquest of Ephyra, begot
tragedy was brought upon the stage in Ol. 95. 2. Tlepolemus. (Apollod. ii. 7. SS 6, 8; Hom. Il.
(Diod. xiv. p. 676. ) He was the author of an ii. 658, &c. ; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 24 ; Asti-
epigram in the Greek Anthology (Anal. iii
. 329), DAMEIA. )
wbich
gave rise to the proverb Σαυτήν επαινείς 3. A daughter of Laomedon by Strymo, Placia,
üotep 'Agtvôduas hoté. (Suidas, s. v. Savrtivor Leucippe. (Apollod. iii. 12. $ 3. ) According
K. 7. 1. ; Diog. Laërt. ii. 43.
)
to other traditions in Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 1697)
2. A tragic poet, the son of the former. The and Dictys (ii. 2), she was a daughter of Priam,
names of some of his tragedies are mentioned by and married Telephus, by whom she became the
Suidas (s. v. ).
(C. P. M. ] mother of Eurypylus. Three other mythical per-
ASTYDÁMEIA ('Aotudáuera), a daughter of sonages of this name occur in Apollod. iii. 12. $ 2,
Amyntor, king of the Dolopians in Thessaly, by u. 5. $ 6 ; Hygin. Fab. 117.
(L. S. ]
Cleobule. She became by Heracles the mother of ASTY'OCHUS ('Aotúoxos), succeeded Melan-
Tlepolemus. (Pind. Ol. vii. 24, with the Schol. ) cridas as Lacedaemonian high admiral, in the sum-
Other accounts differ from Pindar, for Hyginus mer of 412, B. C. , the year after the Syracusan
(Fab. 162) calls the mother of Tlepolemus As- defeat, and arrived with four ships at Chios, late
tyoche, and Apollodorus (ii. 7. $ 8) calls the son in the summer. (Thuc. viii. 20, 23. ) Lesbos
of Astydameia Ctesippus. (Comp. Muncker, ad was now the seat of the contest : and his arrival
Hygin. l. c. ) The Astydameia mentioned under was followed by the recovery to the Athenians of
ACAstus and ANTIGONE, No. 2, is a different the whole island. (Ib. 23. ) Astyochus was
personage.
(L. S. ] eager for a second attempt; but compelled, by the
A'STYLUS, a seer among the centaurs, who is refusal of the Chians and their Spartan captain,
mentioned by Ovid (Met. xii. 308) as dissuading Pedaritus, to forego it, he proceeded, with many
the centaurs from fighting against the Lapithae. threats of revenge, to take the general command at
But the name in Ovid seems to be a mistake either Miletus. (31—33. ) Here he renewed the Persian
of the poet himself or of the transcribers for Asbolus. treaty, and remained, notwithstanding the entrea-
(Hes. Scut. Herc. 185; ASBOLUS. ) [L. S. ] ties of Chios, then hard pressed by the Athenians,
ASTYME'DES ('Aotuunāns), a Rhodian of wholly inactive. He was at last starting to re-
distinction. On the breaking out of the war believe it, when he was called off, about mid-winter,
tween the Romans and Perseus (B. c. 171), he to join a fleet from home, bringing, in consequence
advised his countrymen to side with the former. of complaints from Pedaritus, commissioners to ex-
(Polyb. xxvii. 6. $ 3. ) After the war, when the amine his proceedings. Before this (ěTI DVTA TÓTE
Rhodians were threatened with hostilities by the epi Mantov, cc. 36—42), Astyochus it appears
Romans, Astymedes was sent as ambassador to had sold himself to the Persian interest. He bad
Rome to deprecate their anger. The tenour of his received, perhaps on first coming to Miletus, orders
speech on the occasion is censured by Polybius. from home to put Alcibiades to death ; but finding
(xxx. 4,5; Liv. xlv. 21-25. ) Three years after him in refuge with the satrap Tissaphernes, he not
wards, he was again sent as ambassador to Rome, only gave up all thought of the attempt, but on re-
and succeeded in bringing about an alliance beceiving private intelligence of his Athenian negotia-
tween the Romans and his countrymen. (Polyb. tions, went up to Magnesia, betrayed Phrynichus
xxxi. 6, 7. ) In B. c. 153, on the occasion of the his informant to Alcibiades, and there, it would
a
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ATALANTE.
391
ATAULPHUS.
a
seem, pledged himself to the satrap. (cc. 45 and 50. ) | had grown up, she lived in pure maidenhood, slev
Henceforward, in pursuance of his patron's policy, the centaurs who pursued her, took part in the
his efforts were employed in keeping his large Calydonian hunt, and in the games which were
forces inactive, and inducing submission to the re- celebrated in honour of Pelias. Afterwards, her
duction in their Persian pay. The acquisition of father recognized her as his daughter; and when
Rhodes, after his junction with the new feet, he he desired her to marry, she made it the conditior.
had probably little to do with; while to him, that every suitor who wanted to win her, should
must, no doubt, be ascribed the neglect of the first of all contend with her in the foot-race. If
opportunities afforded by the Athenian dissensions, he conquered her, he was to be rewarded with her
after his return to Miletus (cc. 60 and 63), 411 B. c. hand, if not, he was to be put to death by hier.
The discontent of the troops, especially of the This she did because she was the most swift-footed
Syracusans, was great, and broke out at last in a among all mortals, and because the Delphic oracle
riot
, where his life was endangered ; shortly after had cautioned her against marriage. Meilanion,
which his successor Mindarus arrived, and Asty-one of her suitors, conquered her in this manner.
ochus sailed home (cc. 84, 85), after a command of Aphrodite had given him three golden apples, and
about eight months. Upon his return to Sparta during the race he dropped them one after the
he bore testimony to the truth of the charges other. Their beauty charmed Atalante so much,
which Hermocrates, the Syracusan, brought against that she could not abstain from gathering them.
Tissaphernes. (Xen. Hell
. i. 1. $ 31. ) (A. #. C. ) Thus she was conquered, and became the wife of
ASTYPALAEA ('ACTUmanala), a daughter of Meilanion. Once when the two, by their embraces
Phoenix and Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus. in the sacred grove of Zeus, profaned the sanctity
She was a sister of Europa, and became by Posei- of the place, they were both metamorphosed into
don the mother of the Argonaut Ancaeus and of lions. Hyginus adds, that Atalante was by Ares
Eurypylus, king of the island of Cos. The island the mother of Parthenopaeus, though, according to
Astypalaea among the Cyclades derived its name others, Parthenopaeus was her son by Meilanion.
from her. (Apollod. ii. 7. § 1; Paus. vii. 4. & 2; (Apollod. iii. 9. & 2; Serv. ad Aen. iii. 313; Athen.
Apollod. Rhod. ii. 866; Steph. Byz. s. v. ) (L. S. ) iii. p. 82. )
A'SYCHIS ("Aouxis), a king of Egypt, who, 2. The Boeotian Atalante. About her the same
according to the account in Herodotus (ii. 136), stories are related as about the Arcadian Atalante,
succeeded Mycerinus (about B. c. 1012 according except that her parentage and the localities are
to Larcher's calculation), and built the propy- described differently. Thus she is said to have
laea on the east side of the temple of Hephaestus been a daughter of Schoenus, and to have been
which had been begun by Menes, and also a married to Hippomenes. Her footrace is trans-
pyramid of brick. Herodotus likewise mentions ferred to the Boeotian Onchestus, and the sanc-
some laws of his for the regulation of money tuary which the newly married couple profaned by
transactions.
[C. P. M. ] their love, was a temple of Cybele, who metamor-
ATABY'RIUS ('Atabúplos), a surname of Zeus phoed them into Lions, and yoked them to her
derived from mount Atabyris or Atabyrion in the chariot. (Ov. Met. x. 565, &c. , viii. 318, &c. ;
island of Rhodes, where the Cretan Althaemenes Hygin. Fab. 185. ) In both traditions the main
was said to have built a temple to him. (Apollod. cause of the metamorphosis is, that the husband of
iii. 2. § 1; Appian, Milhrid. 26. ) Upon this moun- Atalante neglected to thank Aphrodite for the gift
tain there were, it is said, brazen bulls which of the golden apples. Atalante has in the ancient
roared when anything extraordinary was going to poets various surnames or epithets, which refer
happen. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. vii. 159. ) (L. S. ) partly to her descent, partly to her occupation (the
ATALANTE ('Atanáytn). In ancient mytho chase), and partly to her swiftness. She was re-
logy there occur two personages of this name, who presented on the chest of Cypselus holding a hind,
have been regarded by some writers as identical, and by her side stood Meilanion. She also ap-
while others distinguish between them. , Among peared in the pediment of the temple of Athena
the latter we may mention the Scholiast on Theo- Alea at Tegea among the Calydonian hunters
critus (iii. 40), Burmann (ad Ov. Met. x. 565), (Paus. v. 19. § l, viii. 45. § 4; Comp. Müller,
Spanheim (ad Callimach. p. 275, &c. ), and Munc- Orchom. p.
