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Characters of the Greek mythology
There are several figures named Pelagon (
Ancient Greek : Πελάγων, -ονος) in
Greek mythology .
Pelagon, king of
Phocis and son of
Amphidamas . He gave
Cadmus the
cow that was to guide him to
Boeotia .
[1]
Pelagon, also called
Pelasgus ,
[2] son of the
river-god
Asopus by the
naiad
Metope , daughter of the river
Ladon .
[3] He was brother to
Ismenus ,
Corcyra ,
Salamis ,
Aegina ,
Peirene ,
Cleone ,
Thebe ,
Tanagra ,
Thespia ,
Asopis ,
Sinope ,
Ornea ,
Chalcis ,
[2]
Harpina
[4] and I
smene
[5] . His sisters were abducted by various gods as punishment for their father's deed.
[6]
Pelagon, one of the suitors of
Hippodamia before
Pelops .
[7]
Pelagon, one of the
Calydonian hunters .
[8]
Pelagon or Pelegon, who is given in the
Iliad as the father of the
Paeonian warrior
Asteropaeus , son of the river-god
Axius and
Periboea , the daughter of
Acessamenus .
[9] Presumably this Pelagon was the
eponymous founder of
Pelagonia .
Pelagon, a native of
Pylos who fought under
Nestor in the
Trojan War .
[10]
Pelagon, an "illustrious" companion of the hero
Sarpedon during the
Trojan War , who removes
Tlepolemus ' spear from Sarpedon's thigh.
[11]
Notes
^
Apollodorus ,
3.4.1 ;
Pausanias ,
9.12.1 ;
Scholia on
Euripides ,
Phoenician Women 638
^
a
b
Diodorus Siculus ,
4.72.1
^ Apollodorus,
3.12.6
^ Diodorus Siculus,
4.73.1
^ Apollodorus,
2.1.3
^ Diodorus Siculus,
4.61.1 &
4.72.1 ; Apollodorus,
1.9.3 ,
2.1.3 &
3.12.6
^ Pausanias,
6.21.11
^
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses 8.360
^ Homer, Iliad 21.142
^ Homer, Iliad 4.295
^ Homer, Iliad 5.695; scholia on this line inform that he was also referred to as "Selagon"
References
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Diodorus Siculus , The Library of History translated by
Charles Henry Oldfather . Twelve volumes.
Loeb Classical Library . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2 . Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Ovidius Naso , Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .