Arab (Arabian, other Greek: Ἀράβιος ) - in ancient Greek mythology the eponym of Arabs .
According to the “List of Women” by Pseudo- Hesiod , Arab is the son of Hermes and Fronia, Bel’s daughter, the father of Cassiopeia [1] .
In the presentation of Pliny the Elder , the Arab is the son of Apollo and the Babylonians (Babylonians), the inventor of medicine (while the Egyptians claim that they invented medicine) [2] .
Sources
- ↑ Hesiod. List of women, fr. 137 M.-U. = Strabo I 2, 34; Antonin Liberal. Metamorphoses 40, 1
- ↑ Pliny the Elder. Natural History VII 57, 5; Wed Losev A.F. Mythology of the Greeks and Romans. M., 1996. P.660 (another understanding of Pliny's text)
- Lexicon Rocher . T. 1. St. 469.