Ismarus

The name Ismarus may refer to several different things:

Place names

Ismarus (Ancient Greek: Ἴσμαρος) also Ismaros or Ismara is a city of the Cicones, on the Aegean coast of Thrace, mentioned in the Odyssey.
A mountain of the same name, "Ismaros".^[1]

Mythology

Ismarus. Defender of Thebes. He killed Hippomedon, one of the Seven against Thebes. Ismarus was son of Astacus.^[2]
Ismarus (Immaradus) was son of Eumolpus and like his father he was killed by Erechtheus during the war between Athens and Eleusis. Eumolpus had previously inherited a Thracian kingdom from Tegyrius, and the latter's daughter had married Ismarus.^[3]^[4]
Ismarus. A Maeonian companion of Aeneas in Italy.^[5]

Entomology

Ismarus (genus) of wasps.

Sources

↑ An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,page 878
↑ Apd.3.6.8
↑ Apd.3.15.4
↑ Pau.1.27.4
↑ Vir.Aen.10.141

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