Akmon (dactyls)
Akmon ( Greek Ἄκμων , "anvil") is one of the Idaean dactyls in Greek mythology .
In Nonnos the Daktyle AKMON with the "mountain by roving" is Corybantes AKMON, son of the Sokos and Kombe identified:
- Came unsteadily, turning on his soles,
- Akmon, Okythoo's friend, in the bright shimmer of his helmet;
- He fought steadfastly like his name: the anvil,
- He raised the Corybantic shield; it had Kronion
- Often slept in its hollow as a child in the mountains.
Here Nonnos merges several mythological figures named Akmon , namely:
- the dactyls, the archaic blacksmith (reference to the anvil ),
- then the corybants, whereby the corybants are again identified with the curetes , the protectors of young Zeus (i.e. Kronion ),
- and finally another Akmon, the father of Uranus , who through an etymological game of learned Alexandrians with akámatos (“indefatigable”) becomes the “imperturbable” and “indefatigable”.
The part of the name Akmon can also be found in other divine smiths, such as the Cyclops ( Pyracmon "fire anvil") or Acmonides ("son of the anvil").
literature
- Fritz Graf: Akmon (1) . In: Der Neue Pauly , Stuttgart 1996ff
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Akmon 1) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 211 ( digitized version ).
- Ulrich Hoefer : Akmon 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1174.