Chalcodon

In Greek mythology, the name Chalcodon (Ancient Greek: Χαλκώδων, gen.: Χαλκώδοντος means "like bronze") may refer to:

• Chalcodon, the son of Abas and the king of the Abantes.[1] He and Telamon assisted Heracles in his campaign against Elis.[2] While leading his people in an attack on Thebes, Greece he was killed by Amphitryon.[3] His son was Elephenor by either Imenarete, Melanippe[4] or Alcyone.[5] He also had several daughters, one of whom, Chalciope, married Aegeas.[6][7]
• Chalcodon of Cos, who wounded Heracles in a battle which arose when the Coans mistook Heracles for a pirate.[8] Also known as Chalcon.[9]
• Chalcodon, a son of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by Rhodia, daughter of Danaus.[10]
• Chalcodon, a suitor of Hippodamia before Pelops, was killed by Oenomaus.[11]

See also

• Chalcon

Notes

1. Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 281.43
2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.15.6 - 7
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.19.3
4. Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 1034
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.3.11
6. Scholia on Euripides, Medea 673
7. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13. p. 556
8. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.1
9. Theocritus, Idylls 7.6
10. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
11. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 6.21.11

References

• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or 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.
• 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.
• Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Theocritus, Idylls from The Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1912. Online version at theoi.com
• Theocritus, Idylls edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.