Alcimus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Alcimus or Alkimos (Ancient Greek: Ἄλκιμος) may refer to:

• Alcimus, a companion of Achilles; he and Automedon were the two most favored by Achilles after Patroclus' death.^[1] Possibly the same as the Alcimus killed by Deiphobus.^[2]
• Alcimus, one of the sons of
  heroon in Sparta.^[3]
• Alcimus, father of Mentor (Odyssey).^[4]
• Alcimus, son of Neleus.^[5]
• Alkimos, one of the comrades of the Greek hero Odysseus.^[6] When the latter and 12 of his crew came into the port of Sicily, the Cyclops Polyphemus seized and confined them. Along with the Ithacan king and six others namely: Lycaon, Amphialos, Amphidamas, Antilochus and Eurylochos, Alcimus survived the manslaughter of his six companions by the monster.^[7]

See also

• 12714 Alkimos, Jovian asteroid

Notes

References

• 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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• Homer,
  ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website
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• 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.
• 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.
• ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4

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