In Greek mythology, Magnes was a Thessalian prince who became the eponymous first king of Magnesia. His parentage is given differently by the ancient sources: Hesiod makes him a son of Zeus and Thyia, while the Bibliotheca places him a generation later as a son of Aeolus and Enarete, brother to the founders of the Aeolian houses. By an unnamed naiad he fathered Dictys and Polydectes, who colonized the island of Seriphos and later figure in the story of Perseus.
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I.Parentage and family
Magnes' parentage is reported differently across the ancient sources. According to Hesiod, he was the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, and the brother of Makednos.
In the Bibliotheca, by contrast, Magnes belongs to a later generation of the Deucalionides: there he is the son of Aeolus and Enarete, and brother to the progenitors of the Aeolian houses — Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede.
II.Marriage and the Seriphos line
Magnes married an unnamed naiad, who bore him Dictys and Polydectes.
The mother and her sons later emigrated and colonized the island of Seriphos. There Polydectes became king, while Dictys lived as a fisherman; it was Dictys who afterward received Danae and her son Perseus when they came to the island.
III.Alternative genealogies
Later commentators preserve variant accounts of Magnes' consorts and children. The scholiast on Euripides names his wife as Philodice and his sons as Eurynomus and Eioneus.
Eustathius calls his wife Meliboea and mentions a single son, Alector, adding that Magnes named the town of Meliboea after his wife and the land of Magnesia after himself.
Pierus, the father of Hyacinth by the Muse Clio, was also called a son of Magnes. According to Tzetzes, Magnes likewise fathered Linus by Clio.