Agelaus

Agelaus or Agelaos (Ancient Greek: Ἀγέλαος) is, in Greek mythology, the name of various individuals.

• Agelaus, father of
  Lyctus. He fought in the army of Dionysus during his campaigns in India.^[1]
• Agelaus, an Arcadian prince as the son of King Stymphalus. He was the father of Phalanthus.^[2]
• Agelaus, also Ageleus, a Calydonian princes as the son of King Oeneus and Queen Althaea.^{[3] [4]}
• Agelaus, son of Heracles and Omphale, and ancestor of Croesus. In other sources this son is instead called Lamus.^[5]
• Agelaus, a common herdsman (or slave of Priam) who saved the life of the Trojan prince Paris, exposed as an infant on Mount Ida, owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of Troy, and brought him up as his own son.^[6]
• Agelaus, son of
  Maion. He was a Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War, by Ajax.^[7]
• Agelaus of
  Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by Meges.^[8]
• Agelaus, son of Phradmon, and a Trojan warrior. He was killed during the war by Diomedes.^[9]
• Agelaus, son of Evanor, and one of the attendants of Acamas during the Trojan War.^[10]
• Agelaus, a Greek warrior slain by Hector during the Trojan War.^[11]
• Agelaus, or Agelaos, son of Damastor and one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Same along with other 22 wooers.^[12] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[13]
• Agelaus, son of
  Callias), hired men to kill his father, since he gave his favour to their sister Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes. When this was discovered, the people gave the throne to Deiphontes and Hyrnetho.^[14]

References

• 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
  ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• 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.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agelaus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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• Works related to Odyssey/Book XII at Wikisource

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