Dascylus

In Greek mythology, Dascylus or Daskylos (Ancient Greek: Δάσκυλος) is a name that may refer to:

• Dascylus, a king who ruled over Mysia or Mariandyne. He is presumably the eponym of the coastal city of Dascylaeum or Dascylium (but see below). The wife of Dascylus was , daughter of the river god Lycus,^[1] and he was the father of sons named Lycus, , and . Dascylus' own father was the infamous Tantalus.^[2][3] Priolas and Otreus were both killed by Amycus, king of Bebrycia (Bithynia); Otreus was killed while travelling to Troy to sue for the hand of King Laomedon's daughter Hesione in marriage.^[4][5] Both sons have names connected with local settlements: Priola, near Heraclea, and Otrea, on the Ascanian Lake.
• Dascylus, a son of Lycus, and grandson of the above Dascylus. He acted as a guide to the Argonauts.^[6]
• Dascylus of Lydia (fl. late 8th to early 7th century BC), named by Herodotus as the father of Gyges.^[7]
• Dascylus, father of Nacolus. His son was the eponym of the city of Nacoleia in Phrygia.^[8]
• Dascylus, son of Periaudes, eponym of Dascylium, a town in Caria.^[9]

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• Herodotus (1975) [first published 1954]. Burn, A. R.; de Sélincourt, Aubrey (eds.). The Histories. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051260-8.

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