Pelagon

There are several figures named Pelagon (Ancient Greek: Πελάγων, -όνος) in Greek mythology.

• Pelagon, king of Phocis and son of Amphidamas. He gave Cadmus the cow that was to guide him to Boeotia.[1][2][3]
• Pelagon or Pelasgus, son of the river-god Asopus by Metope.[4][5]
• Pelagon, one of the suitors of Hippodamia before Pelops.[6]
• Pelagon, one of the Calydonian hunters.[7]
• Pelagon or Pelegon, who is given in the Iliad as the father of the Paeonian warrior Asteropaeus, son of the river-god Axius and Periboea, the daughter of Acessamenus.[8] Presumably this Pelagon was the eponymous founder of Pelagonia.
• Pelagon, a native of Pylos who fought under Nestor in the Trojan War.[9]
• Pelagon, an "illustrious" companion of the hero Sarpedon during the Trojan War, who removes Tlepolemus' spear from Sarpedon's thigh.[10]

Notes

1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.12.1
2. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 638
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.4.1
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.6
5. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.72.1
6. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 6.21.11
7. Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.360
8. Homer, Iliad 21.142
9. Homer, Iliad 4.295
10. Homer, Iliad 5.695; scholia on this line inform that he was also referred to as "Selagon"

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.
• 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.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.