Tyro
Greek · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Mortal princess of Elis, daughter of Salmoneus. Loved the river-god Enipeus; visited by Poseidon in his likeness. Mother of twin sons Neleus and Pelias.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- father: SalmoneusApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother: Alcidice, mother of TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
Parentage accounts
Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.
- Apollodorus: Aetolian ancestryThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
Claimed divine ancestry; fraction unquantified because the account is incomplete.
- father: SalmoneusApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother: Alcidice, mother of TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
Complete cited pedigree (6 ancestral accounts)
- SalmoneusThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Aeolus, son of HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- Aeolus, son of HellenThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: HellenApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- mother: OrseisApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
- HellenThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Deucalion, son of PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: PyrrhaApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- Deucalion, son of PrometheusPrometheus is named as father; the mother is not named in this passage.
- father: PrometheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- PyrrhaThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: EpimetheusApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- mother: PandoraApollodorus, Library 1.7.2 (primary)
- EnareteThe named genealogy in Apollodorus; unnamed parents remain unknown. Mythic parentage is not a historical claim.
- father: Deimachus, father of EnareteApollodorus, Library 1.7.3 (primary)
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Amythaon: Apollodorus: Aetolian ancestryApollodorus, Library 1.9.11 (primary)
Variant accounts
- classification correctionThe named parentage and newly completed Apollodoran ancestry place the record in this registry ancestry band. This updates the prior tier based on incomplete ancestry; the band does not assert an exact biological percentage where coparents or source alternatives remain unresolved.Apollodorus, Library 1.7.2–3; 1.9.8 (primary); Apollodorus, Library 1.7.2–10; 1.8.1 (primary)
Domains
- heroine mother of kings
Relations
- lover: PoseidonVisited by Poseidon disguised as the river Enipeus.Hom. Od. 11.235-259; Apollod. 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother of: NeleusHom. Od. 11.235-259 (primary)
- mother of: PeliasHom. Od. 11.235-259 (primary)
- father: SalmoneusApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother: Alcidice, mother of TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- child (Apollodoran account): AmythaonApollodorus, Library 1.9.11 (primary)
- father (Apollodoran account): SalmoneusApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
- mother (Apollodoran account): Alcidice, mother of TyroApollodorus, Library 1.9.8 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Homer Odyssey 11.235-259; Apollodorus 1.9.8-10 (primary)