The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/;
Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical myth:
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] and father of
Phalerus the
Argonaut.[3]Gaius Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child.[4]Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom
Servius calls a
Cretan, and of whom Servius relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus.[5]
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.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/;
Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical myth:
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] and father of
Phalerus the
Argonaut.[3]Gaius Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child.[4]Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom
Servius calls a
Cretan, and of whom Servius relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus.[5]
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.
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.