Helisson (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Helisson (Ancient Greek: Ἑλισσὼν) was an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon ^[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,^[2] Nonacris ^[3] or by unknown woman. He was the reputed eponymous founder of the Arcadian town of Helisson, as well as the river of the same name.^[4]

• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Sons of Lycaon
• Princes in Greek mythology
• Mythological kings of Arcadia
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