Haemon (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Haemon /ˈhiːmɒn/ or Haimon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων Haimon "bloody"; gen.: Αἵμωνος) may refer to the following personages and a creature:
- Haemon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae.[4] Haemon and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Haemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[5]
- Haemon, the eponym of Haemonia (ancient Thessaly) and the son of Chlorus, son of Pelasgus.[6] In some accounts, he was instead identified as the son of Pelasgus.[7] Haemon was the father of Thessalus who gave his name to Thessaly after.[8]
- Haemon, father of Aechme who became the wife of the Argive Polypheides and by him the mother of Theoclymenus and Harmonides.[9]
- Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.[10]
- Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.[11]
- Haemon, son of Alector, son of Magnes, and father of Hyperochus, grandfather of Tenthredon[12], father of Prothous.[13][14]
- Haemon, father of Elasippus, one of the Achaean soldiers who fought at Troy. His son was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea.[15]
- Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.[16]
- Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.[17]
