Nisus
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Nisus of Dulichium
in the texts
Odyssey
Father of Amphinomos, son of king Aretias.
He was the son of Nisus, who was son to king Aretias, and he was foremost among all the suitors from the wheat-growing and well grassed island of Dulichium;
he is Nisus of Dulichium, a man both brave and wealthy.
but Amphinomos the son of Nisus, who was son to Aretias, said, "Do not let us take offense;
Orations
Mythological king given a purple lock by Fortune.
To Croesus she gives gold, to Candaules a wife, to Peleus a sword, to Nestor a shield, to Pterelaus a golden lock of hair, to Nisus a purple lock, to Alcibiades beauty, to Socrates wisdom, to Aristides justice, to the Lacedaemonians the land, to the Athenians the sea.