concept
Tyrrhenians
also: Τυρσηνοί
Pirates — identified with the Etruscans — who seize the disguised young Dionysus in Hymn 7, try to bind him, and are turned into dolphins for their impiety, all but the helmsman who alone recognized the god.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §7.1 Tyrrhenians
Pirates — identified with the Etruscans — who seize the disguised young Dionysus in Hymn 7, try to bind him, and are turned into dolphins for their impiety, all but the helmsman who alone recognized the god.