Argynnos

Argynnos ( ancient Greek Ἄργυννος ) was, according to the Greek legend, a Boiotic lover of Agamemnon . Another lover of Argyynus was Hymenaius .

Argynnos was a son of Peisidike , daughter of Leukon and granddaughter of Athamas . When the Greek fleet gathered in the port of Aulis before heading to Troy , Agamemnon left the army and saw Argynnos bathing on the river Kephisus , with whom he fell in love. After he drowned in the river, he buried him and built a temple of Aphrodite Argynnis at the grave , which was called Argunis (Ἀργουνίς) in the Boiotic dialect.

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• Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 13.80 (603) (around 228 AD)
• Phanocles fr. 5.
• Stephanos of Byzantium sv Ἄργυννος

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Argennos, Argynnos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 501 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Wentzel : Argynnos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 799.
• Fritz Graf : Argynnos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 1074.