Idmon
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In Greek mythology, Idmon (Ancient Greek: Ἴδμων means "having knowledge of" or "the knowing") may refer to the following individuals:
- Idmon, one of the fifty sons of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Pylarge.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=2:chapter=1&highlight=Idmon 2.1.5]
- Idmon, father of Arachne,Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.8 and perhaps her brother Phalanx too.
- Idmon, an Argonaut seer and son of Apollo or Abas, and Princess Cyrene.Argonautica Orphica 185–187 & 721
- Idmon, herald of Turnus.Virgil, Aeneid 12.75
- Idmon, a figure briefly mentioned in Statius' Thebaid. He came from Epidaurus and was portrayed in the poem cleansing Tydeus' wounds after a battle.Statius, Thebaid [https://archive.org/stream/statiusstat01statuoft#page/478/mode/2up 3.399]
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References
- Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Vergil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Statius, The Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [https://topostext.org/work/149 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Grimal, Pierre. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATUZ1H3kkRwC&dq=idmon&pg=PA228 Entry for Idmon.] The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Blackwell, 1986. {{ISBN|0-631-20102-5}}.
- Seaton, R.C. (editor and translator). Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1912.
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514042129/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1670.html William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 562, under Idmon]}}
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