Editing Elymus (mythology)

{{Short description|Greek and Roman mythological figure}}
'''Elymus''' ({{langx|grc|Ἔλυμος|Élymos}}) was the supposed [[Troy|Trojan]] ancestor of the [[Elymians]] ({{lang|grc|Ἔλυμοι}}), an indigenous people of [[Sicily]], in [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology|Roman legend]].

==Legends==
Elymus was a [[Troy|Trojan]], a natural son of [[Anchises]]<ref>[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]] ad [[Lycophron]], [https://topostext.org/work/860#965 965]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} and the half-brother of [[Eryx (mythology)|Eryx]] through [[Aphrodite]].<ref>Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#958 959]</ref>{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} Previous to the emigration of [[Aeneas]], also a son of Anchises, Elymus and [[Acestes]] had fled from Troy to Sicily, and had settled on the banks of the river [[Crinisus]], in the country of the [[Sicani]]. When afterwards the Trojan refugees led by Aeneas also arrived there, Elymus built for them the towns of [[Segesta]] and [[Elyme]], and the Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus.<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysius Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities'' 1.52 ff.</ref>

[[Strabo]]<ref>Strabo 13.608 [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_VVZ9SFfmWyQC#page/n239/mode/1up (p.608)] [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_VVZ9SFfmWyQC#page/n717/mode/1up (Index)]</ref> calls him Elymnus, and says that he went to Sicily with Aeneas, and that they together took possession of the cities of [[Eryx (Sicily)|Eryx]] and [[Lilybaeum]]. Elymus was further believed to have founded [[Asca]] and [[Entella]] in Sicily.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 5.73, and [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]]'s note</ref>

In the ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Vergil]] has Elymnus competing in the [[funeral games (antiquity)|funeral games]] held on Sicily for Anchises, in the footrace in which [[Nisus and Euryalus]] are introduced.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 5.286 ff.</ref> As '''Helymus''', he is also listed among the competitors by [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], who says he finished second to Euryalus and was awarded an [[Amazons|Amazon]]ian [[quiver]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#273 273]</ref>

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===Bibliography===
* [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysus of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Servius (grammarian)|Maurus Servius Honoratus]], ''In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii;'' recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0053 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''[[Aeneid]].'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Scholia]] to [[Lycophron|Lycophron's]] ''Alexandra'', marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). [https://topostext.org/work/860 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]. [[iarchive:lycophronisalexa02lycouoft/page/n5/mode/2up|Greek text available on Archive.org]]
* [[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica|The Geography of Strabo]].'' Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Strabo, ''Geographica'' edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
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