Agelaos (slave of Priam)
Agelaos ( ancient Greek Ἀγέλαος ) is a person from Greek mythology .
He is a slave of the Trojan king Priam , who is ordered by his master to abandon his son Paris in the wilderness. He then takes the baby to the Ida Mountains and leaves it there. When he returned there after five days, he saw Paris being suckled by a she-bear and doing well. He then takes the child in, gives him his name Paris and raises him like his own son in the field.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agelaos 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 102 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Knaack : Agelaos 7 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 770.