Alphonsus the Learned, in his _Cronica General_, maintains and is supported in his no less extravagant opinion by Diego Mossem Valera, Isabel the Catholic's historian, that Toledo was founded by Pyrrhus, captain of the army of Cyrus, and son-in-law of King Hispan, father of Iberia. It is imagined that Iberia, Pyrrhus's wife, was in need of the freshness and verdure of the leafy banks of the Tagus, and that her husband brought her hither to taste the air and delights of the gardens around. But we are not told how there came to be gardens and foliaged places along the silent Tagus, nor who fashioned them, nor how Pyrrhus heard of them. The wife, Iberia, and the father-in-law appear as adequate explanations of the subsequent history of Spain, since both furnish the names of the land that Europe is familiar with. Once upon the banks of the Tagus, the gardens did not content Pyrrhus, so he began to enlarge the spot he had chosen. He discovered two towers, one at San Roman, and the other at the Alcázar, called _Los Dos Hermanos_, (The Two Brothers), built, tradition then told him, by the two sons of King Rocas in defence against the enemies of Rocas and his father Tartus. But whence came Rocas and Tartus and the two brothers? Why should Alphonso the Learned choose Pyrrhus and his wife, those remote tourists, as the founders of Toledo, rather than Rocas and Tartus? Rufo Festo Avieno regards Hercules as the founder of the Carpetanian city, and celebrates the achievement in verse: "Et Carpetanos inter proverbe sub Auras Toletum labor Alcide præclareque gentes Metropolis in gente Tajo ses undique iactat In qua tardi gradus conspectat parte Trionis Haud Pater Alcides (ut dicunt) condidit urbem, Mor ubi ter gemina victor gerione perempto, In latium meditatus iter Dionysii quondam, Prium dicta fuit de fundatoris honesto Nomine; Toletum alii dixere coloni." This version explains the name of Toledo as Ptoliethron, signifying important race, bestowed by Hercules. Honour is also awarded to a certain Greek astrologer, Ferecio, who came to Galicia with Teucer, Ulysses and Diomedes, after the siege of Troy, and having killed one of his companions, flew from the anger of the others into the heart of the Peninsula, until the security of the high rocks on which Toledo is built, tempted him to seek shelter amid these altitudes, which he at once consecrated to Hercules. As the natives gathered round him, and the town spread, he initiated them in the mysteries of magic and astrology, arts until then unknown in Spain, and for this reason called _arta Toledana_.