Solymus


In Greek mythology, Solymus or Solymos was the ancestral hero and eponym of the Solymi, who inhabited Milyas, in south-west Anatolia.
He was a son of either Zeus or Ares; his mother's name is variously given as Chaldene, Caldene "daughter of Pisidus", Calchedonia or Chalcea "the nymph". Solymus was said to have married his own sister Milye, also a local eponymous heroine. Milye's second husband was named Cragus.
It is unclear whether the name Solymus is derived from a mountain by the same name in Anatolia, or vice versa.
A possibly different Solymus is mentioned by Ovid as a Phrygian companion of Aeneas and eponym of Sulmona.