Ardalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄρδαλος) was in Greek mythology a son of the god Hephaestus who was said to have invented the flute, and to have built a sanctuary of the Muses at Troezen, who derived from him the surname Ardalides or Ardaliotides.
This story is recorded in the works of Pausanias,[1] and in some obscure fragments of Hesychius of Alexandria.[2][3]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.3
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria, Alphabetical Collection of All Words s.v. Ἀρδαλίδες
- ^ Hollis, Adrian S. (1998). "Some Neglected Verse Citations in Hesychius". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 123. Verlag Rudolf Habelt: 67. ISSN 0084-5388. JSTOR 20190292.
Pausanias
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Ardalus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 274.
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