Alcimedon (/alkĭ'mĭdon/;
Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people in
Greek mythology and history:
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.[1]
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. Alcimedon
exposed the latter but Heracles saved him.[2]
Alcimedon, a craftsman, mentioned or imagined by the Latin poet
Virgil in his
Eclogue 3, who had made two pairs of cups, one pair decorated with pictures of
Conon of Samos and another astronomer, and the other pair with a picture of
Orpheus.[4]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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Alcimedon (/alkĭ'mĭdon/;
Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people in
Greek mythology and history:
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.[1]
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. Alcimedon
exposed the latter but Heracles saved him.[2]
Alcimedon, a craftsman, mentioned or imagined by the Latin poet
Virgil in his
Eclogue 3, who had made two pairs of cups, one pair decorated with pictures of
Conon of Samos and another astronomer, and the other pair with a picture of
Orpheus.[4]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.