Alcimedon
Alcimedon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people in Greek mythology and history:
- Alcimedon, an Arcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He had a daughter named Phialo, by whom Heracles had a son, Aechmagoras, whom Alcimedon exposed, but Heracles saved.[1]
- Alcimedon, one of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a dolphin.[2][3]
- Alcimedon, a son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus.[4][5]
- Alcimedon, an embosser or chaser, spoken of by Virgil, who mentions some goblets of his workmanship.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece viii. 12. § 2
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses iii. 618
- ↑ Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae 134
- ↑ Homer, Iliad xvi. 197, xvii. 475, &c.
- ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alcimedon 1-3". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 102.
- ↑ Virgil, Eclogues iii. 37, 44
- ↑ Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alcimedon 4". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 102.
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