Ardalus (Ancient Greek: Ἄρδαλος) was in Greek mythology a son of the god Hephaestus who was said to have invented the flute, and to have built a sanctuary of the Muses at Troezen, who derived from him the surname Ardalides or Ardaliotides.
This story is recorded in the works of Pausanias,1 and in some obscure fragments of Hesychius of Alexandria.23
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- Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.3
- Hesychius of Alexandria, Alphabetical Collection of All Words s.v. Ἀρδαλίδες
- Hollis, Adrian S. (1998). "Some Neglected Verse Citations in Hesychius". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 123. Verlag Rudolf Habelt: 67. ISSN 0084-5388. JSTOR 20190292.
Pausanias
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Ardalus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 274.