In Greek mythology, Haemon /ˈhiːmɒn/ or Haimon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων Haimon "bloody"; gen.: Αἵμωνος) may refer to the following personages and a creature:
- Haemon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene, Nonacris or by unknown woman. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae. Haemon and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Haemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.
- Haemon, the eponym of Haemonia (ancient Thessaly) and the son of Chlorus, son of Pelasgus. In some accounts, he was instead identified as the son of Pelasgus. Haemon was the father of Thessalus who gave his name to Thessaly after.
- Haemon, father of Aechme who became the wife of the Argive Polypheides and by him the mother of Theoclymenus and Harmonides.
- Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.
- Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.
- Haemon, a descendant of Magnes and father of Hyperochus, father of Tenthredon, father of Prothous.
- Haemon, father of Elasippus, one of the Achaean soldiers who fought at Troy. His son was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea.
- Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.
- Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.
Notes
- Pausanias, 8.44.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- Pausanias, 8.17.6
- Pausanias, 8.3.3
- Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Haimonia
- Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 3.1089
- Strabo, 9.5.23
- Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 15.213 with Pherecydes as the authority
- Apollodorus, 3.5.8
- Pausanias, 5.3.6
- Eustathius on Homer, Illiad p. 338
- Homer, Iliad 2.756, Apollodorus, Epitome 3.14; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 634
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.229
- Homer, Iliad 4.295
- Hyginus, Fabulae 181
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. 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.
- Gaius Julius 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.
- 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. 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.
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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