Argynnus
InGreek mythology,Athenaeustells a tale of howAgamemnonmourned the loss of his friend or loverArgynnus(Ancient Greek:Ἄργυννος,romanized:Árgunnos), a boy fromBoeotia,[1]when he drowned in theCephisusriver.[2]He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine toAphroditeArgynnis.[3]This episode is also found inClement of Alexandria,[4]inStephen of Byzantium(KopaiandArgunnos),and inPropertius,III with minor variations.[5]
It was said that Argynnus was a prince ofHaliartusin Boeotia, one of the sons of kingCopreusand queenPisidice.[6]
According toAthenaeus,Likymnios of Chios,in hisDithyrambics,says that Argynnus was aneromenosof the godHymenaeus.[7]
Notes
[edit]- ^"Ἄργυννος".Logeion.The University of Chicago.Retrieved28 July2023.
- ^Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles."Argynnus".A Latin Dictionary.Perseus Project.Retrieved16 September2011.
- ^The Deipnosophists ofAthenaeus of Naucratis,Book XIII Concerning Women, 80D (p. 603)
- ^Clement of Alexandria,ProtrepticusII.38.2
- ^Butler, Harold Edgeworth & Barber, Eric Arthur, eds. (1933)The Elegies of Propertius.Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 277
- ^Stephanus of Byzantium,Ethnica,A114.8
- ^Athenaeus,Deipnosophists,13.80
References
[edit]- Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophistsor Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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