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In Greek mythology, Alectryon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεκτρυών, romanized: Alektruon, lit. 'cock') may refer to the following personages:

• Alectryon, a young soldier who was assigned by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in a love affair with Aphrodite.
• Alectryon, also called Alector, father of Leitus, and in some accounts of Clonius, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor. All four were leaders of the Boeotian contingent against Troy.

Notes

1. Lucian Gallus, 3. For the myth, see also the scholiast to Aristophanes Av. 835; Eustathius ad Homer, Odysseam 1.300; Ausonius, 26.2.27; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26
2. Homer, Iliad 17.602
3. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 533–536. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.

References

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

• Set index articles on Greek mythology
• Mythological Boeotians