Solymus

For the beetle genus, see Solymus (beetle).

In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos (Ancient Greek: Σολύμου) may refer to two individuals:

• Solymus, an ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas (i.e the area around Solyma), in south-west Anatolia. He was a son of either Ares and Caldene, daughter of Pisidus^[1] (probably the eponym of Pisidia), or of Zeus and Chaldene,^[2] Calchedonia^[3] or Chalcea "the nymph".^[4] Solymus was said to have married his own sister Milye, also a local eponymous heroine. Milye's second husband was named Cragus,^[5] presumed eponym of the city Cragus or Mount Cragus. It is unclear whether the name Solymus was derived from a mountain by the same name (now known as Güllük Dağ) in Anatolia, or vice versa.
• Solymus, mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.^[6]