Agamede (Greek: Ἀγαμήδη) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history:
[edit] Mythological
Agamede (c. twelfth century BC) was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth.[1] She was born in Elis, the eldest daughter of Augeas, King of the Epeans,[2] and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by Nestor during a war between Elis and Pylos.[3] Hyginus makes her the mother of Belus, Actor, and Dictys, by Poseidon.[4] She was called Perimede by both Propertius and Theocritus.[5][6] By the Hellenistic period (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like Circe or Medea.[7]
[edit] Historical
The hill Vounaros, the location of ancient Agemede
Agamede was a daughter of Macar, from whom Agamede, a place in Lesbos, was believed to have derived its name.[3][8] The town had already disappeared in Pliny's day.[9][10] Ancient Agamede has been identified recently, with the ruins (walls, graves) on a small hill called “Vounaros” 3 km north of ancient Pyrrha.[11]
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- ^ Homer. Iliad, xi. 739.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn; Joy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to Mid-20th Century. Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 0-415-92040-X. http://books.google.com/?id=QmfyK0QtsRAC&pg=PA12&dq=agamede.
- ^ a b Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Agamede (1) and (2)". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston. pp. 57. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0066.html
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, 157.
- ^ Propertius. Elegies, 2.4.
- ^ Theocritus. Idylls, 2.16.
- ^ Dickie, Matthew (2004). Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World. Routledge. p. 23. ISBN 0-415-31129-2. http://books.google.com/?id=k3ONA1LMKv8C&pg=RA1-PA23&dq=agamede.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἀγαμήδη.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia V. xxix
- ^ Cramer, John Anthony (1832). A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor. The University Press. p. 163. http://books.google.com/?id=JCAOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA163&dq=agamede.
- ^ Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in Lesviaka, 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
