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.

proof

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 8.
2. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 1, 7.
3. ↑ Palaiphatos 45.
4. ↑ Diodorus 4, 31.
5. ^ Ovid Heroides 9, 54.