Alcon (mythology)
The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical mythology:
- Alcon, a Laconian prince as the son of King Hippocoon, usurper of Tyndareus. He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. Alcon was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta.[1]
- Alcon, a son of Erechtheus, king of Athens,[2][3] and father of Phalerus the Argonaut.[4] A fragment of Ephorus describes him as the son of Abas, king of the Abantes in Euboea, and brother to Arethousa and Dias.[5]
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus describes an Alcon who is a skillful archer; when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child.[6] He is mentioned by Virgil, and Servius calls him a Cretan, relating almost the same story as that from Valerius Flaccus.[7]
- Alcon, a son of Ares, and another one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar, according to Hyginus.[8]
- Another Alcon is mentioned by Ovid as a craftsman who made a wonderful mixing bowl given to Aeneas by Anius king of Delos.[9]
- Another, otherwise unknown personage, of the same name occurs in Cicero.[10]
- August Meineke renders the name of Halon, an Attic healing hero, as Alcon.[11]
The name Alcon derives from the root word alke (ἀλκή), which means "strength," "prowess," or "courage".
Notes
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.10.5; Hyginus, Fabulae 173; Pausanias, 3.14.7 & 3.15.3
- ↑ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.97
- ↑
Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Alcon". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
- ↑ Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Alcon (1); Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.97 with scholia ad loc; Hyginus, Fabulae 14.
- ↑ Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Alcon (1); Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Athen (Billerbeck, pp. 68–69) [= FGrHist 70 F24].
- ↑ Valerius Flaccus, 1.399
- ↑ Virgil, Eclogues 5.11
- ↑ Parada, s.v. Alcon 4; Hyginus, Fabulae 173
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.683; cf. Athenaeus 11.469a.
- ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.21
- ↑ Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Alcon (4).
References
- 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 1, A – Ari, edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Leiden, Brill, 2002. ISBN 9004122583.
- Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
- Parada, Carlos, Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1993. ISBN 978-91-7081-062-6.
- 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.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnica: Volumen I Alpha - Gamma, edited by Margarethe Billerbeck, in collaboration with Jan Felix Gaertner, Beatrice Wyss and Christian Zubler, De Gruyter, 2006. ISBN 978-3-110-17449-6. doi:10.1515/9783110202816.
- Virgil, Eclogues. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1895. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Virgil, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alcon". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.