< Socos, father of Acmon >

1 Origin

Socos was born in Aptera, northwest of Crete, in 1465 BC.

2 Family

Socos and Combe had seven sons: Acmon, Idaios, Damneus, Ocythoos, Melisseus, Prymneus, and Mimas. [Nonnus.13.135]

But Pausanias lists Paeonaeus, Epimedes, and Iasius as Acmon's brothers, in addition to Idaios (or Idas). [Paus.5.7.6]

Acmon's brothers were Idaean Dactyls and Corybants. [Nonnus.14.23]

3 Father of Socos

Acmon, also called the Idaean Heracles, was the grandfather of Clymenus, who held games at Olympia and was banished by Endymion, son of Aethlius, who lived in Elis. [Newton.156, Paus.5.8.1]

A genealogy shows that the supposed father of Socos, who ruled Aptera, the birthplace of the Idaean Dactyls, was Melisseus, the father of Idaea, the mother of Teuclus, the founder of the kingdom of Troy.