Alcon (mythology)
The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical myth:
- Alcon, a son of Hippocoon, and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. He was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta.[1][2][3]
- Alcon, a son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and father of Phalerus the Argonaut.[4][5] Gaius Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child.[6] Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom Servius calls a Cretan, and of whom he relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus.[7]
- Two other, otherwise unknown personages of the same name occur in Cicero and in Hyginus.[2][8]
References
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, iii. 10. § 5
- 1 2 Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae 173
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 14. § 7, 15. § 3
- ↑ Apollonius of Rhodes, i. 97
- ↑ Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae 14
- ↑ Gaius Valerius Flaccus, i. 399, &c.
- ↑ Virgil, Eclogues v. 11
- ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21
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