Myscelos

Role: Argive founder of Crotona · First appears: Fable 109

Life events

• Hercules commands Myscelos in a dream to leave Argos and settle near the Æsar.(Fable109 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Lying upon him, as he is overwhelmed with the drowsiness of sleep, the club-bearer, {Hercules}, addresses him: ‘Come, {now}, desert thy native abodes; go, {and} repair to the pebbly streams of the distant Æsar.’”
• Myscelos is accused of contemptuously violating the laws forbidding departure from his country.(Fable109 · 📍 Argos)
  • “He was alarmed; and {now} he was also preparing to transfer his country’s home to a new settlement, {when} a rumour arose in the city, and he was accused of holding the laws in contempt.”
• A miracle changes every condemning pebble to white, and Hercules secures Myscelos’s acquittal.(Fable109 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Hercules
  • “Soon as it, being inverted, poured forth the pebbles to be counted, the colour of them all was changed from black to white, and the sentence, changed to a favourable one by the aid of Hercules, acquitted the son of Alemon.”
• Myscelos reaches the Æsar, discovers Croton’s burial mound, and founds a city bearing Croton’s name.(Fable109 · 📍 Crotona)
  • With: Croton
  • “And there, on the appointed land, did he found his walls, and he transferred the name of him that was {there} entombed to his city.”

Fable 109

• parent: Alemon “For there was a certain Myscelos, the son of Alemon, an Argive, most favoured by the Gods in those times.”
• with Hercules (Hercules miraculously secures Myscelos's acquittal.) “Soon as it, being inverted, poured forth the pebbles to be counted, the colour of them all was changed from black to white, and the sentence, changed to a favourable one by the aid of Hercules, acquitted the son of Alemon.”
• with Croton (Myscelos founds the city and gives it Croton's name.) “he finds the destined mouth of the river Æsar; and, not far thence, a mound, beneath which the ground was covering the sacred bones of Croton. And there, on the appointed land, did he found his walls, and he transferred the name of him that was {there} entombed to his city.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.