[3] According to Marsyas of Pella (c. 330 BC), Pierus was the son of Makednos[4] 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.
[1] Most of the myths recounted Pierus to have fathered the Pierides by Antiope, nymph of Pieria[8] or Euippe of Paionia.
[9] 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.
Being conquered, they were transformed into birds called Colymbas, Iyngx, Cenchris, Cissa, Chloris, Acalanthis, Nessa, Pipo, and Dracontis.
[11] In the account of Pausanias, Pierus has emigrated from Thrace into Boeotia and established the worship of the Muses at Thespiae.