Myscellus

Myskelos (Greek Μύσκελος, latin Myscelus ) is a figure in Greek mythology, and the son of Alemon.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, he lived in Argos. One night in a dream appeared Myskelos who has become a god Herakles and ordered him to leave his home and to go to the remote Aisar and threatened punishment if he did not obey the command. However, was offset by the law of a local dimension, which forbade any under pain of death, to seek a new home.

After the god appeared to him a second time in a dream and still higher penalties threatened to Myskelos decided immediately to leave the city. He was then arrested and brought to justice. The verdict was decided by black and white stones which were thrown into an urn and then counted ( black = guilty, white = innocent ). In order to escape the death penalty, Myskelos prayed to the gods, and after the urn was empty, all the stones were white. So left Myskelos Argos and went on to the river Aisar in Italy. Here he founded near a hill, under which the bones of the heroes are buried Croton, a city and named it after the name of the deceased: Croton (now Crotone). Among his most famous inhabitants Pythagoras heard.