Idmon (Argonaut)
In Greek mythology, Idmon (Ancient Greek: Ἴδμων means "having knowledge of") was an Argonaut seer. Allegedly a son of Apollo, he had Abas (or Ampycus) as his mortal father.[1] His mother was Asteria, daughter of Coronus, or Cyrene, or else Antianeira, daughter of Pheres. By Laothoe he had a son Thestor.[2][3] Idmon foresaw his own death in the Argonaut expedition, but joined anyway. During the outbound voyage of Argo, a boar killed him in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia.[2][4][5]
In 559 BC the citizens of Megara Heraclea (today's Eregli) built a temple over Idmon's grave.
Relation | Names | Sources | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pherecydes | Apollonius | Hyginus | Orphic | Schol. ad Apollon. | ||
Parentage | Apollo and Asteria | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Apollo | ✓ | |||||
Abas | ✓ | |||||
Apollo and Cyrene | ✓ | |||||
Abas and Cyrene | ✓ | |||||
Apollo and Antianeira | ✓ | |||||
Spouse | Laothoe | ✓ | ||||
Offspring | Thestor | ✓ |
Notes
- Argonautica Orphica, 185–187; 721
- Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
- Scholia on Argonautica, 1. 39
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.815–834
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 9. 23
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