Tiryns

According to Pausanias,1 a son of Argus, from whom the ancient city of Tiryns derived its name; according to Stephanus of Byzantium it derived its name from Tiryns, a daughter of Halus and sister of Amphitryon.

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References

Notes

  1. Description of Greece ii, 25.7.

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.