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For similar sounding terms, see Dymax, Dynax, Dynas, and Dynix.

In Greek mythology, Dymas (Ancient Greek: Δύμας) is the name attributed to the following individuals:

  • Dymas, a Mariandynian who warned the Argonauts about the cruelty of Amycus, king of the Bebrycians. Both Mariandynians and Bebrycians lived in northwestern Asia Minor.
  • Dymas, a soldier who fought on the side of the Seven against Thebes. He took part in the foot-race at Opheltes' funeral games in Nemea. Dymas was wounded in battle and killed himself when the enemy started questioning him.
  • Dymas, a Dorian and the ancestor of the Dymanes. His father, Aegimius, adopted Heracles' son, Hyllas. Dymas and his brother, Pamphylus, submitted to Hyllas.
  • Dymas, king of Phrygia and father of Hecuba.
  • Dymas, perhaps the same as the first. According to Quintus Smyrnaeus this Dymas was the father of Meges, a Trojan whose sons fought at Troy.
  • Dymas, an Aulian warrior who came to fight at Troy under the leadership of Archesilaus. He died at the hands of Aeneas.
  • Dymas, a Trojan soldier who fought with Aeneas and was killed at Troy.
  • Dymas, was mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as a Phaeacian captain, whose daughter was a friend to the princess Nausicaa.

Notes

  1. Valerius Flaccus, 4.160 ff. & 4.187
  2. Statius, Thebaid 6.559, 10.348 & 10.435
  3. Apollodorus, 2.8.3.
  4. Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Homer, Iliad 16.717
  5. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.606
  6. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.303
  7. Virgil, Aeneid 2.340
  8. Homer, Odyssey 6.22

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