Psilas

I.e. "the giver of wings," or "the unbearded," a surname of Dionysus, under which he was worshiped at Amyclae.

❧

From Doric psila, "wings."

References

Sources

  • Lobeck on Phrynichus, p. 435.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 19.6.
  • 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.