Alkon (son of the Hippocoon)

Alkon ( ancient Greek Ἄλκων ) is a person from Greek mythology .

He is the son of the hippocoon from Amyklai . Together with his father and his brothers Dorykleus , Skaios , Enarophoros , Euteiches , Bukolos , Lykaithos , Tebros , Hippothoos , Eurytos , Hippokorystes and Alcinous he drove the rulers of Sparta , Ikarios and Tyndareos , out of the city. Hippocoon and all his sons are killed by Heracles , whereupon Tyndareus takes control again. In one position at Hyginus Mythographus , Alkon is one of the participants in the hunt for the Calydonian boar .

According to Pausanias , Alkon in Sparta had a heroon near the stadium.

literature

• Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen : Alkon 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1578 f.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Alkon 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 249 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 5.
2. ^ Hyginus Mythographus, Fabulae 173 ; he follows Ovid , Metamorphoses 8, 314 , where the sons of Hippocoon are named as participants in the hunt.
3. ↑ Pausanias 3:14 , 7.