Pergamus

A son of Pyrrhus and Andromache. In a contest for the kingdom of Teuthrania, he slew its king Areius, and then named the town after himself Pergamus, and in it he erected a sanctuary of his mother.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 11.1 ff.
  • 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.