Pylas

A son of Cteson, and king of Megara, who, after having slain Bias, his own father's brother, founded the town of Pylos in the Peloponnese. He gave Megara to Pandion who had married his daughter Pylia, and accordingly was his son-in-law.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 39.6, where he is called Pylos, and vi, 22.3, where he is called Pylon.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library iii, 15.5.
  • 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.