Bisaltes

For genus of beetles, see Bisaltes (beetle).

In Greek mythology, Bisaltes (Greek: Βισάλτης), son of Helios and Gaia, was the eponymous hero of the Bisaltae and Bisaltia in Thracian Macedonia.^[1] Theophane was the daughter of Bisaltes.^[2]

Notes

1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bisaltia
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 188

References

• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.