Tyro (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Tyro (; ) may refer to two distinct women:

Tyro, a Phoenician queen as the wife of King Agenor who named after her the newly built city of Tyre. She became the mother of his sons: Cadmus, Phoenix, Syros, Cilix, and, a daughter, Europa.Malalas, 2.30 In other accounts, the spouse of Agenor was variously given as Telephassa,Apollodorus, 3.1.1 Argiope,Hyginus, Fabulae 6 & 178; Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes fr. 21 Fowler 2000, p. 289 = FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1186 Antiope,Scholiast ad Euripides, Phoenissae 5; Tzetzes, Chiliades 7.165–166 and Damno.Gantz, p. 208; Pherecydes, fr. 21 Fowler (2001), p. 289 = FGrHist 3 F 21 = Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1186 Tyro, mother of the twins, Neleus and Pelias, by Poseidon.Apollodorus, 1.9.8 Tyros, a Phoenician nymph and lover of Heracles.

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