Agathyrnos
Agathyrnos ( ancient Greek Ἀγάθυρνος ) is a person of Greek mythology .
He is the son of the Aiolic progenitor Aiolos and eponymous hero of the city of Agathyrnon in Sicily . An image of Agathyrnos can be found on a coin found in Tyndaris , on which he is depicted as a warrior with a shield and lance. The coin is dated around the year 344 BC. Dated.
literature
- Georg Knaack : Agathyrnos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 764.
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agathyrnos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 99 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ^ Diodorus 5, 8.
- ^ Barclay Vincent Head : Historia Numorum. A Manual of Greek Numismatics , 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1911, p. 189 .