Haemon (mythology)

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 son of King Lycaon[1][2] either possibly by the naiad nymph Cyllene[3] or Nonacris[4]. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae.[5]
• Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.[6]
• Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.[7]
• Haemon, a descendant of Magnes and father of Hyperochus, father of Tenthredon, father of Prothous.[8]
• Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.[9]
• Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.[10]

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.44.1
2. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
3. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 1.13.1
4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.17.6
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.3.3
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.5.8
7. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.3.6
8. Eustathius on Homer, p. 338
9. Homer, Iliad 4.295
10. Hyginus, Fabulae 181

References

• 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.
• Pseudo-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.