Sicelus
In classical mythology, Siculus or Sicelus (Ancient Greek: Σικελός, romanized: Sikelos, lit. 'a Sicel' or 'of Sicily') may refer to two distinct figures:
- Sicelus, also called Scellis (Σκέλλις), a Thracian leader who quarrelled over Pancratis, daughter of Aloeus, with another chief Hecetorus, and they eventually slaughtered each other. In another account, Hecetor was called his father and the quarrel was with his brother Agassamenus. In any case, they both died at the hands of each other.
- Siculus or Sicelus, a legendary king and son of Italus or else of Neptune (Poseidon). Thucydides and other Greek historians have suggested that he was the legendary progenitor of the Sicels (or Siculi), an Italic people who colonised Sicily three hundred years before the Ancient Greeks in 1050 BCE. Sicelus was received as a guest by King Morges of the Oenotrians, and set up a kingdom for himself, dividing the Italian nation. After his crossing to Sicily the island was called after him which was originally called Sicania after a previous legendary King called Sicanus.
References
- ↑ The name is directly tied to the Sikeloi (Sicels), an ancient Italic people who migrated to and inhabited the eastern and central regions of Sicily during the Bronze and Iron Ages. While the exact linguistic origin of the root Sikel- is lost to history, secondary etymological theories tentatively connect the root to words signifying "fertility," "scythe," or a land rich in "figs and olives."
- ↑ His name means literally "the plunderer", "one who strips" or "one who tears/ renders". It is derived from the Greek verb skylō (σκύλλω), meaning "to tear," "to rend," or "to strip," or from the noun skylos (σκῦλος), meaning "spoils" or "plunder".
- 1 2 Parthenius, 19 as cited from the second book of the Naxiaca of Andriscus
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 5.50.7
- 1 2 Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason; Catherine Mason (2006). Encyclopedia of European Peoples. Infobase Publishing. pp. 735–. ISBN 978-1-4381-2918-1. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- 1 2 Edna Wiegand (1936). Notes on the eighth book of the Commentary of Servius on Vergil's Aeneid. Columbia University. p. 67. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ↑ Roman and European Mythologies. University of Chicago Press. 15 November 1992. pp. 56–. ISBN 978-0-226-06455-0. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
- ↑ Solinus, 5.7
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.12.3 & 1.22.3-4
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