Maleus

One of the sons of Heracles by Omphale, the queen of Lydia. He is said to have been the inventor of the trumpet.

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References

Sources

  • Scholiast on Homer's Iliad xviii, 219.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Statius. Thebaid iv, 224.