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, Tmolus (; , ''Tmōlos'') may refer to the following figures: * Tmolus, a king of

Lydia Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its capital was Sardis. At some point before 800 BC, ...

, and the husband of

Omphale In Greek mythology, Omphale (; ) was princess of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor. Diodorus Siculus provides the first appearance of the Omphale theme in literature, though Aeschylus was aware of the episode. The Greeks did not recognize her a ...

to whom he bequeathed his kingdom. * Tmolus, the god of

Mount Tmolus Mount Tmolus (Ancient Greek: Τμῶλος, modern Bozdağ; highest point: 2,157 m), named after Tmolus, King of Lydia, is in "a mountain range on the south of Sardis, forming the watershed between the basins of the Hermus in the north and the ...

, who was the judge of a musical contest between the gods

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and Pan (or the

satyr In Greek mythology, a satyr (, ), also known as a silenus or ''silenos'' ( ), and sileni (plural), is a male List of nature deities, nature spirit with ears and a tail resembling those of a horse, as well as a permanent, exaggerated erection. ...

Marsyas In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas (; ) is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (''aulos'') that had been abandoned by Athena and played it; in the other, he challenged Apollo to a contest of ...

). When Tmolus awarded the victory to Apollo,

Midas Midas (; ) was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house. His father was Gordias, and his mother was Cybele. The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek m ...

the king of Phrygia disagreed, Apollo transformed Midas' ears into the ears of an ass. * Tmolus, the father of Tantalus by

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. However the father of Tantalus (by Pluto) was usually said to be

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. * Tmolus, a son of

Proteus In Greek mythology, Proteus ( ; ) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (''hálios gérôn''). Some who ascribe a specific domain to Prote ...

, who along with his brother Telegonus was killed by

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. However according to the mythographer

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, the two sons of Proteus killed by Heracles were named Telegonus and Polygonus. * Tmolus, a son of

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and Theogone, was a king of

. While hunting on a mountain, Tmolus raped a companion of Artemis, who then hung herself. Angry, Artemis caused Tmolus to be killed by a raging bull. Theoclymenus, Tmolus' son, buried his father on the mountain, after which the mountain was call

.Grimal, s.v. Tmolus 2;

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, ''

De fluviis ''De fluviīs'' (Latin for "concerning rivers"), also called ''Dē fluviōrum et montium nōminibus et dē iīs quae in illīs inveniuntur'' ("concerning the names of rivers and mountains and those things which are found in them") or the Greek ''� ...

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