In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργυννος, romanized: Árgunnos), a boy from Boeotia,[1] when he drowned in the Cephisus river.[2] He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis.[3] This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria,[4] in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.[5]
It was said that Argynnus was a prince of Haliartus in Boeotia, one of the sons of king Copreus and queen Pisidice.[6]
According to Athenaeus, Likymnios of Chios, in his Dithyrambics, says that Argynnus was an eromenos of the god Hymenaeus.[7]
Notes
edit- ^ "Ἄργυννος". Logeion. The University of Chicago. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
- ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles. "Argynnus". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Project. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
- ^ The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women, 80D (p. 603)
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus II.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 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.
- 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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