Homoloeus

A son of Amphion, from whom the Homoloian gate of Thebes was believed to have derived its name.1 Others, however, derived the name of the gate from the hill Homole, or from Homolois, a daughter of Niobe.2

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References

Notes

  1. Scholiast on Euripides' Phoenician Maidens, 1126.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 8.3; Scholiast on Euripides, l.c.; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 520.

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.