Tyrrhenus
Τυρρηνός
(Τυρρηνός or Τυρσηνός), a son of the Lydian king Atys and Callithea, and a brother of Lydus, is said to have led a Pelasgian colony from Lydia into Italy, into the country of the Umbrians, and to have given to the colonists his name, Tyrrhenians. (Hdt. 4.94; Dionys. A. R. 1.27.) Others call Tyrrhenus a son of Heracles by Omphale (Dionys. A. R. 1.28), or of Telephus and Hiera, and a brother of Tarchon. (Tzetz. ad Lyc. 1242, 1249.) The name Tarchon seems to be only another form for Tyrrhenus, and the two names represent a Pelasgian hero founding settlements in the north of Italy. (Comp. Müller, Die Etrusker, vol. i. p. 72, &c.)
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.