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Set of various people in Greek mythology
Agelaus or Agelaos (
Ancient Greek : Ἀγέλαος) is, in
Greek mythology , the name of various individuals.
Agelaus, father of
Antheus of
Lyctus . He fought in the army of
Dionysus during his campaigns in
India .
[1]
Agelaus, an
Arcadian prince as the son of King
Stymphalus . He was the father of
Phalanthus .
[2]
Agelaus, also Ageleus, a
Calydonian princes as the son of King
Oeneus and Queen
Althaea .
[3]
[4]
Agelaus, son of
Heracles and
Omphale , and ancestor of
Croesus . In other sources this son is instead called
Lamus .
[5]
Agelaus, a common herdsman (or slave of
Priam ) who saved the life of the Trojan prince
Paris , exposed as an infant on
Mount Ida , owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of
Troy , and brought him up as his own son.
[6]
Agelaus, son of
Maion . He was a
Trojan warrior and killed, during the
Trojan War , by
Ajax .
[7]
Agelaus of
Miletus , son of
Hippasus . He fought against the Greeks as part of contingent of
Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by
Meges .
[8]
Agelaus, son of
Phradmon , and a Trojan warrior. He was killed during the war by
Diomedes .
[9]
Agelaus, son of
Evanor , and one of the attendants of
Acamas during the Trojan War.
[10]
Agelaus, a
Greek warrior slain by
Hector during the Trojan War.
[11]
Agelaus, or Agelaos, son of
Damastor and one of the
Suitors of
Penelope who came from
Same along with other 22 wooers.
[12] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by
Odysseus with the aid of
Eumaeus ,
Philoetius , and
Telemachus .
[13]
Agelaus, son of
Temenus and descendant of Heracles. Agelaus, along with his brothers (
Eurypylus and
Callias ), hired men to kill his father, since he gave his favour to their sister
Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes. When this was discovered, the people gave the throne to Deiphontes and Hyrnetho.
[14]
Notes
^
Nonnus ,
Dionysiaca 35.382
^
Pausanias , 8.35.9
^
Hesiod ,
Ehoiai
fr. 98 Evelyn-White = fr. 25 Merkelbach–West
^
Antoninus Liberalis ,
2 as cited in
Nicander's Metamorphoses
^
Apollodorus , 2.7.8, f.n. 228
^ Apollodorus, 3.12.5
^
Quintus Smyrnaeus ,
3.247
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus,
1.300
^
Homer ,
Iliad 8.253
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus,
4.365
^ Homer, Iliad 11.299
^ Homer,
Odyssey 22.241 & 293; Apollodorus,
Epitome 7.28
^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
^ Apollodorus, 2.8.5
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Greek text available from the same website .
Hesiod ,
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ISBN
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Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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Quintus Smyrnaeus ,
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1870).
"Agelaus" .
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .
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