Ardalus
{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological figure}}
Ardalus ({{langx|grc|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,Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.31.3 and in some obscure fragments of Hesychius of Alexandria.Hesychius of Alexandria, Alphabetical Collection of All Words s.v. Ἀρδαλίδες{{cite journal | last =Hollis | first =Adrian S. | title =Some Neglected Verse Citations in Hesychius | journal =Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik | volume =123 | pages =67 | publisher =Verlag Rudolf Habelt | date =1998 | jstor =20190292 | issn= 0084-5388}}
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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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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Category:Children of Hephaestus
Category:Demigods in classical mythology
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