Sardus (), also Sid Addir and Sardus Pater ("Sardinian Father") was the Eponym mythological hero of the Nuragic Sardinians. Sardus appears in the writings of various classical authors, like Sallust, Solinus and Pausanias.
Ancient sources
According to Sallust,
[Sallust, Historiae, II, fr.4] Sardus son of
Hercules, left
Ancient Libya along with a great multitude of men and occupied the island of
Sardinia, which was so named after him. Later Pausanias confirms the story of Sallust and in the second century CE writes that Sardus was the son of Makeris (identifiable with
Mecur /
Macer, a Libyan name deriving from the
Berber languages imɣur "to grow"), and that the island of Sardinia changed its name from
Ichnusa to
Sardinia in honor of Sardus.
[Pausanias, Ελλάδοσ περιήγησισ, X, 17] Makeris is likely identifiable with
Melqart, whom Pausanias and classical authors identified as the "
Heracles" of Libyans and Egyptians.
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