Parrhasius

A son of Lycaon, from whom Parrhasia in Arcadia was believed to have derived its name.1 Some call him a son of Zeus, and father of Arcas and Parus, from whom the island of Paros derived its name.2

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References

Notes

  1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid xii, 31; Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Πάρος.

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.