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Orpheus is king of
Bistonian Pieria,
succeeding his
mortal father, King Oeagrus.
Orpheus is also said to have been
killed by
Bistonian women. From the worship...
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Polymestor or
Polymnestor (Ancient Gr****: Πολυμ(ν)ήστωρ) was a king of the
Bistonians in Thrace.
Polymestor appears in Euripides' play
Hecuba and in the Ovidian...
- dead did his men, the
Bistonians,
attack Heracles. Upon
seeing the
mares charging at them, led in a
chariot by Abderus, the
Bistonians turned and fled. All...
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victory against the
neighbouring Edonians tribe if so adorned. The
Thracian Bistonians were
famous for
their warlike nature and cult of Ares whom they worshipped...
- Dionysiaca, the
author states that
Oeagrus quitted his city of
Pimpleia on the
Bistonian plain and
followed the
enterprise of
Dionysos against the
Indian people...
- dead did his men, the
Bistonians,
attack Heracles. Upon
seeing the
mares charging at them, led in a
chariot by Abderus, the
Bistonians turned and fled. In...
- note Orpheus's
Thracian origins.
Orpheus was
called the
ruler of the
Bistonian Pieria, a
region inhabited by the
Thracian tribes Bistones and Pieres...
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father of
Orpheus and
Linus Orpheus of the
Cicones Polymestor of the
Bistonians Zalmoxis of the
Getae Charnabon of the Getae, who came into
power when...
- Opus son of
Hodoedocus (Leodocus) and
Agrianome Orpheus ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 7
Bistonian Pieria,
Thrace son of
Calliope and
Oeagrus Palaemon or
Palaimonius ✓ ✓...
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Pimpleia in
Thessalian Pieria, home of the Muses, he is the
ruler of
Bistonian (Thracian)
Pieria He
encourages the crew with his
music and he establishes...
