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In Greek mythology, Palamaon (Ancient Greek: Παλαμάονος) was the Athenian father of Daedalus, the famous architect of Labyrinth.[1] The latter was attributed to various parentage: (1) Eupalamus[2] and Alcippe,[3] (2) Metion[4] and Iphinoe,[5] (3) Phrasmede[6] or (4) Merope, daughter of King Erechtheus.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.3.2
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 39, 244 & 274; Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 6.14; Suida, Suda Encyclopedia s.v. Πέρδικος ἱερόν; Scholiast on Plato, Republic 7.529d
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.15.9; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a
  4. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.76.1; Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472
  5. ^ Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468, 472
  6. ^ Scholia on Plato, The Republic p. 529
  7. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 19.5

References

  • 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. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.