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Teuthras

Τεύθρας

(Τεύθρας).

1. An ancient king of Mysia, who received Auge, the daughter of Aleus, and brought up her son Telephus. From him the town of Teuthrania in Mysia was believed to have received its name. (Apollod. 2.7.4; Paus. 8.4; Strab. xii. p.571.) [TELEPHUS].

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.