Akmon (son of Manes)

Akmon ( Greek  Ἄκμων ) is in Greek mythology the son of Manes , brother of Doias and eponymous founder of the city Akmonia in Phrygia , near Ahat Köy about 10 km south of today's Banaz in Turkey .

He is the father of Mygdon , who fought against the Amazons .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Akmon 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 211 ( digitized version ).
• Ulrich Hoefer : Akmon 5 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1174.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephanos of Byzanz sv Akmonia and Doiantos pedion
2. ↑ Scholion to Iliad 3.189