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Gordys

Γόρδυς

(Γόρδυς), a son of Triptolemus, who assisted in searching after Io, and then settled in Phrygia, where the district of Gordyaea received its name from him. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Γορδίειον; Strab. pp. 747, 750.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.