Haemon (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Haemon 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^[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,^[2] Nonacris^[3] or by unknown woman. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae.^[4] 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.^[5]
• Haemon, the eponym of Haemonia (ancient Thessaly) and the son of Chlorus, son of Pelasgus.^[6] In some accounts, he was instead identified as the son of Pelasgus.^[7] Haemon was the father of Thessalus who gave his name to Thessaly after.^[8]
• Haemon, father of Aechme who became the wife of the Argive Polypheides and by him the mother of Theoclymenus and Harmonides.^[9]
• Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.^[10]
• Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.^[11]
• Haemon, a descendant of Magnes and father of Hyperochus, father of Tenthredon,^[12] father of Prothous.^{[13] [14]}
• Haemon, father of Elasippus, one of the Achaean soldiers who fought at Troy. His son was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea.^[15]
• Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.^[16]
• Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.^[17]

Notes

1. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
2. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus]
3. Pausanias, 8.17.6
4. Pausanias, 8.3.3
5. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
6. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
7. [Scholia]
8. [Strabo]
9. Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 15.213 with Pherecydes as the authority
10. Apollodorus, 3.5.8
11. Pausanias, 5.3.6
12. [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]
13. Homer, Iliad 2.756, Apollodorus, Epitome 3.14; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
14. Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 634
15. [Quintus Smyrnaeus]
16. Homer, Iliad 4.295
17. Hyginus, Fabulae 181

References

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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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.