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Alcimedon

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Alcimedon (/alkĭ'mĭdon/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people in Greek mythology and history:

  • Alcimedon, an Arcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He lived in a place near Mount Ostracina and had a daughter named Phialo, by whom Heracles had a son, Aechmagoras, whom Alcimedon exposed, but Heracles saved.[1]
  • Alcimedon, one of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a dolphin.[2][3]
  • Alcimedon, a son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus. workmanship.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.12.2
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabuale 134
  3. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.581-691
  4. ^ Homer, Iliad 16.197
  5. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy 11.448 ff.

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