Alectryon (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Alectryon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεκτρυών, romanized: Alektruon, lit. 'cock') may refer to the following personages:
- Alectryon, a young soldier who was assigned by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in a love affair with Aphrodite.[1]
- Alectryon, also called Alector, father of Leitus,[2] and in some accounts of Clonius, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor.[3] All four were leaders of the Boeotian contingent against Troy.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Lucian Gallus, 3. For the myth, see also the scholiast to Aristophanes Av. 835; Eustathius ad Homer, Odysseam 1.300; Ausonius, 26.2.27; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26
- ^ Homer, Iliad 17.602
- ^ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 533–536. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
References
[edit]- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
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