Agelaus

A son of Heracles and Omphale, and the founder of the house of Croesus.1 Herodotus2 derives the family of Croesus from one Alcaeus, and Diodorus3 from one Cleolaus, while he calls the son of Heracles and Omphale Larmus, and others Laomedes.4

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 7.8.
  2. i, 7.
  3. iv, 31.
  4. Antoninus Liberalis, 2; Palaephatus. On Incredible Tales, 45.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.