Agelaos (son of Heracles)
Agelaos ( ancient Greek Ἀγέλαος ) is in Greek mythology, one of the Heracleidae .
Agelaos is the son of Heracles and Omphale . According to the library of Apollodorus, the Lydian king Kroisos descends from him, whereas Herodotus names Alkaios as the progenitor of the Lydian royal house .
In Palaiphatos the son of Heracles with the Omphale is called Laomedes , in Diodorus and Ovid the name Lamos is found .
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agelaos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 101 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Wilcken : Agelaos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 770.