Agathyllus

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Agathyllus (Gr. Ἀγάθυλλος) was a Greek elegiac poet from Arcadia, who is quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus in reference to the history of Aeneas and the foun­dation of Rome.[1]

He came into Arcadia, and, in Nesus, married his two daughters Codone and Anthemone. But he himself hastened to the Hesperian land, where he begot Romulus.[2]

Some of his other verses are preserved by Dionysius,[3] although he largely says the accounts of Agathyllus agree with those of another ancient writer, Cephalon.[2]

[edit] Entomology

Agathyllus is also a species of the eulophidae family of chalcidoidea catalogued by Francis Walker.[4] Dasypogon agathyllus is a variety of diptera.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Agathyllus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, pp. 66 
  2. ^ a b Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, 111, 163-164. 
  3. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. 49, 72
  4. ^ British Museum, Natural History and Zoology departments (1852). List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 49. 
  5. ^ British Museum, Natural History and Zoology departments (1854). List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 489. 

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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