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Ismarus

Ἴσμαρος

(Ἴσμαρος), a son of Eumolpus, is said to have fled with his father from Aethiopia to Thrace, and from thence to Eleusis. (Apollod. 3.15.4.) There is one other personage of the same name. (Apollod. 3.6.8; ASTACUS.)

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.