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Nicolaus Damascenus (F. H. G. iii. 383) calls Candaules ‘Sadyattes’. Hesychius (s. v. Κυνάγχη) says that Κανδαύλας = Hermes or Heracles (cf. Hipponax, fr. 1, Ἑρμῆ κυνάγχα, Μῃονιστὶ κανδαῦλα); in this case ‘C.’ may be a cult-name, assumed by the king in addition to his own (cf. the new names taken by Popes).

Hall (J. H. S. xxix. 19) points out that the name Μυρσίλος (‘Mursil’) has been found by Winckler at Boghaz Keui as that of a Hittite king. He suggests that the name, which is that of Pelops' charioteer, tends to confirm the old tradition that Pelops was an immigrant into Greece, and to show that perhaps in the fourteenth century B. C., Greece was subject to a Hittite dynasty.

Σαρδίων. H. almost always follows (cf. iii. 120. 1 n.) the Persian usage in calling the Lydian satrapy by the name of its capital.

Ἀλκαίου. H. is the only writer who mentions Alcaeus as the son of Heracles, though both the grandfather of Heracles and Heracles himself (Diod. i. 24) are sometimes called Alcaeus.

The Greeks identified the Asiatic Bel, in Cilicia (Meyer, i. 484) and perhaps in Lydia called ‘Sandon’ (cf. i. 71. 2), with Heracles, because he was a lion-tamer and a bow-bearer; he was probably a sun-god, though Meyer (v. s.) makes him a vegetation-god.

H.'s list, then, may be a piece of genuine native tradition with Graecized names; at the head of it appear two great deities, Heracles and Omphale, representing the sun-god and Ashtoreth. But H. is inconsistent in vii. 61, where he makes Perseus, an ancestor of Heracles, rescue Andromeda, the granddaughter of Belus. It is more probable, however, that Heracles has no proper place in the genealogy, and is brought in by a piece of Greek syncretism, because the δούλη (§ 4) was supposed to be Omphale. The genealogy itself seems hopelessly confused; the (otherwise unknown, v. s.) son of a Greek hero is father of a Babylonian god and grandfather of the eponymous hero of Nineveh.

While, however, the form in which the genealogy is presented is Greek, it may represent a real tradition of early connexion with the East. This can hardly have been with the great kingdoms of the Euphrates valley, for Assurbanipal states that when the ambassadors of ‘Gugu of Luddi’ arrived at Nineveh (R. P. i.1 68), ‘the king's very fathers had not heard speak of its name’; but it may have been with the Hittite empire in Asia Minor, as was suggested by Sayce (ad loc.) as long ago as 1883. Hogarth says (I. and E., p. 75): ‘it may well be that the rock monuments near Smyrna are memorials of a definite political occupation by the power of the Hatti.’ Garstang too (p. 63) is disposed to accept H.'s traditions as having elements of truth in them.

Ninus was, according to the Greeks (Ctes. Ass. ii, p. 390), the founder of Nineveh; but his name does not appear on the monuments.

Belus is properly a common name, ‘lord,’ but became identified with the chief god of Babylonia (cf. Hastings' D. of B., s. v. Baal).

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