Haemon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Haemon /ˈhiːmɒn/ or Haimon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων Haimon "bloody"; gen.: Αἵμωνος) may refer to the following personages and a creature:
- Haemon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae.[4] Haemon and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Haemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[5]
- Haemon, the eponym of Haemonia (ancient Thessaly) and the son of Chlorus, son of Pelasgus.[6] In some accounts, he was instead identified as the son of Pelasgus.[7] Haemon was the father of Thessalus who gave his name to Thessaly after.[8]
- Haemon, father of Aechme who became the wife of the Argive Polypheides and by him the mother of Theoclymenus and Harmonides.[9]
- Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.[10]
- Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.[11]
- Haemon, a descendant of Magnes and father of Hyperochus, father of Tenthredon,[12] father of Prothous.[13][14]
- Haemon, father of Elasippus, one of the Achaean soldiers who fought at Troy. His son was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea.[15]
- Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.[16]
- Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.[17]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pausanias, 8.44.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Pausanias, 8.3.3
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Haimonia
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1089
- ^ Strabo, 9.5.23
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 15.213 with Pherecydes as the authority
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.8
- ^ Pausanias, 5.3.6
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, Illiad p. 338
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.756, Apollodorus, Epitome 3.14; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 634
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.229
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.295
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 181
References
[edit]- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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