Hippocoon

In Greek mythology, the name Hippocoön (/hˈpɒkˌɒn, -kəˌwɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκόων) refers to several characters:

Names of Hippocoön's sons include Lycon, Alcinous, Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eurytus, Bucolus, Euteiches, Lycaethus, Hippothous, Tebrus, Hippocorystes,[2] Alcimus, Dorceus, Sebrus, Eumedes,[7] Enaesimus, Alcon and Leucippus (the last three were among the Calydonian hunters).[8] Diodorus Siculus states that there were twenty of them, but gives no individual names.[6]

References

  1. In Bibliotheca 3. 10. 4, all three are called sons of Oebalus and Bateia; in Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 1. 4, Tyndareus' s mother is Gorgophone
  2. 1 2 Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 10. 5
  3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 1. 4; 3. 15. 2
  4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 7. 3
  5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 15. 4
  6. 1 2 Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 33. 5
  7. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 14. 6; 3. 15. 1
  8. Hyginus, Fabulae, 173
  9. Homer, Iliad, 10. 218
  10. Virgil. Aeneid. Book V, 492-545.
  11. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 68. 5
  12. Hyginus, Fabulae, 10
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Tyndareus
(first reign)
King of Sparta
?–?
Succeeded by
Tyndareus
(second reign)
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