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| King name "Hippothous" | Greek | A son of Cercyon, and father of Aepytus, who succeeded Agapenor as king in Arcadia, where he took up his residence, not at Tegea, but at Trapezus. Greek |
"Iasus 6" | Greek | An Arcadian, a son of Lycurgus and Cleophile or Eurynome, a brother of Ancaeus and Amphidamas, and the husband of Clymene, the daughter of Minyas, by whom he became the father of Atalante. |
| King name "Lycaon" | Greek | A son of Pelasgus by Meliboea, the daughter of Oceåñuś, and king of Arcadia. Others call him a son of Pelasgus by Cyllene , and Dionysius of Halicarnåśśus distinguishes between an elder and a younger Lycaon, the former of whom is called a son of Aezeus and father of Deianeira, by whom Pelasgus became the father of the younger Lycaon. Greek |
"Maia" | Greek | Or Mcuas, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione (whence she is called Atlantis and Pleias), was the eldest of the Pleiades, and in a grotto of mount Cyllene in Arcadia she became by Zeus the mother of Hermes. Areas, the son of Zeus by Callisto, was given to her to be reared. Greek |
| Nymph name "Myrtoessa" | Greek | The nymph of a well of the same name in Arcadia. Greek |
"Orchomenus" | Greek | 1. A son of Lycaon, and the reputed founder of the Arcadian towns of Orchomenus and Methydrium. (Apollodorus iii) |
"Peucetius" | Italy | One of the sons of Lycaon, is said to have led, in conjunction with his brother Oenotrus, an Arcadian colony into Italy. |
| King name "Phegeus" | Greek | A brother of Phoroneus, and king of Psophis in Arcadia. The town of Phegeia, which had before been called Erymanthus, was believed to have derived its name from him. Subsequently, however, it was changed again into Psophis. Greek |
"Protogeneia" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha. She was married to Locrus, but had no children; Zeus, however, who carried her off, became by her, on mount Maenalus in Arcadia, the father of Opus. According to others she was not the mother, but a daughter of Opus. Eridymion also is called a son of Protogeueia. |
"Rhoecus" | Greek | A centaur who, conjointly with Hylaeus, pursued Atalanta in Arcadia, but was killed by her with an arrow. Greek |
| God name "Sinoe" | Greek | An Arcadian nymph, brought up the god Pan, who derived from her the surname Sinoeis. Greek |
"Stymphalides" | Greek | The celebrated rapacious birds near the Stymphalian lake in Arcadia, whence they were driven by Heracles and compelled to take refuge in the island of Aretias in the Euxine, where they were afterwards found by the Argonauts. Greek |
| Nymph name "Syrinx" | Greek | An Arcadian nymph, who being pursued by Pan, fled into the river Ladon, and at her own request was metamorphosed into a reed, of which Pan then made his flute. ( Metamorphoses I) Greek |
| King name "Telephus" | Greek | A son of Heracles and Auge, the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea. He was reared by a hind and educated by king Corythus in Arcadia. Greek |
| Nymph name "Telphusa" | Greek | A daughter of Ladon, a nymph from whom the town of Telphusa in Arcadia derived its name. Greek |
"Temenus" | Greek | 1. A son of Pelasgus, educated Hera at Stymphalus in Arcadia. |
"Tricolonus" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one a son of Lycaon, and founder of Tricoloni in Arcadia (Pausanias viii), and the other one of the suitors of Hippodameia, who was conquered and killed by Oenomaus. |
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