Coön
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Coön was the brother of Crino,[3] Acamas,[4][5] Agenor,[6][7] Antheus,[8] Archelochus,[9][10] Demoleon,[11] Eurymachus,[12] Glaucus,[13] Helicaon,[14] Iphidamas,[15] Laodamas,[16][17] Laodocus,[18] Medon,[19] Polybus,[6][20] and Thersilochus.[19]
Mythology
In the Iliad, he confronted Agamemnon over the body of his brother Iphidamas and wounded the opponent in the arm, but Agamemnon struck back and chopped Coön's head off.[21] The fight between Agamemnon and Coön was depicted on the chest of Cypselus according to Pausanias.[22]
Notes
- ^ Pherecydes in scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.53
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
- ^ Pausanias, 10.27.4
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.395
- ^ Pausanias, 10.27.3
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.123
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.516
- ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 4.87
- ^ a b Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.59
- ^ Homer, Iliad 11.249-269; also briefly mentioned in Tzetzes, Homerica 194
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.19.4
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.
- Dictys Cretensis, from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. .
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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