Dexamenus (son of Heracles)

Dexamenos ( Greek  Δεξαμενός "the hospitable") is a person of Greek mythology .

According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus , he was a son of Heracles and in turn the father of Ambrax , king of the Epeirotic city ​​of Ambrakia at the time when Aeneas arrived there and founded a sanctuary of Aphrodite .

literature

• Otto Höfer : Dexamenos 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 284.
• Paul Weizsäcker : Dexamenos 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1001 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.50.