Olynthus
Ὄλυνθος
(Ὄλυνθος), a son of Heracles and Bolbe, from whom the Thracian town of Olynthus, and the river Olynthus near the Chalcidian town of Apollonia, were believed to have received their name. (Steph. Byz. s.v. Athen. 8.334; Conon, Narrat. 4, where another person of the same name is mentioned.)
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.