According to
Marsyas of Pella (c. 330 BC), Pierus was the son of
Makednos by a local woman and brother of
Amathus (Emathus), eponym of Emathia but
Solinus (9.10) contradicts this idea because according to him Pierus was unrelated and older than Makednos. In the
Suda, he was described as a son of
Linus, the son of
Thracian Aethusa and in turn Pierus was the father of
Oeagrus making him the grandfather of the musician
Orpheus. His wife was known to be
Methone, a
nymph while others called her Pierus' sister. In the account of
Antoninus Liberalis, Pierus sprung from the soil (an
autochthon). or
Euippe of
Paionia. An unnamed daughter of Pierus was said to be the mother of Orpheus, not the
Muse Calliope as what the Greeks believed according to
Pausanias. == Mythology ==