 One account makes him the father of Menippe who became the mother of Orpheus by Oeagrus.When Philammon refused to take Argiope into his house as his wife, the girl left Peloponnese and went to the country of the Odrysians in Thrace where she gave birth to a son, Thamyris.When the boy reached puberty, he became so accomplished in singing to the cithara that the Scythians made him their king even though he was an interloper.