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In Greek mythology, Dymas (Ancient Greek: Δύμας) is the name attributed to the following individuals:
- Dymas, a Mariandynian who warned the Argonauts about the cruelty of Amycus, king of the Bebrycians. Both Mariandynians and Bebrycians lived in northwestern Asia Minor.[1]
- Dymas, a soldier who fought on the side of the Seven against Thebes. He took part in the foot-race at Opheltes' funeral games in Nemea. Dymaswas wounded in battle and killed himself when the enemy started questioning him.[2]
- Dymas, a Dorian and the ancestor of the Dymanes. His father, Aegimius, adopted Heracles' son, Hyllas. Dymas and his brother, Pamphylus, submitted to Hyllas.[3]
- Dymas, king of Phrygia and father of Hecuba.[4]
- Dymas, perhaps the same as the first. According to Quintus Smyrnaeus this Dymas was the father of Meges, a Trojan whose sons fought at Troy.[5]
- Dymas, an Aulian warrior who came to fight at Troy under the leadership of Archesilaus. He died at the hands of Aeneas.[6]
- Dymas, a Trojan soldier who fought with Aeneas and was killed at Troy.[7]
- Dymas, was mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as a Phaeacian captain, whose daughter was a friend to the princess Nausicaa.[8]
- ^ Valerius Flaccus, 4.160 ff. & 4.187
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 6.559, 10.348 & 10.435
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.8.3.
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Homer, Iliad 16.717
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.606
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.303
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 2.340
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 6.22