Lydus (

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: Λυδός), a son of Atys and Callithea, grandson of

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, and brother of Tyrrhenus or Torybus, is a legendary figure of the 2nd millennium BC who is attested by

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to have been an early king of Lydia, then probably known as

Maeonia Lydia ( Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern western Turkish prov ...

. According to Herodotus, the country of Lydia and its

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were afterwards named for Lydus, their mythical ancestor.

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* Herodotus, I
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* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I. 27, &c. * Strabo, v. p.219.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 ...

.'' 2. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1867.

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