Palaemon

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This page contains multiple definitions of the same term, and a user has therefore recommended this page for disambiguation in the near future.

Palaemon may refer to

  • A genus of shrimp
  • the birth name given to the Greek hero Herakles and the name he used until the Pythoness at Delphi first addressed him as Herakles when he sought a cure for his madness. (Robert Graves, Greek Myths 122.d.)
  • The Greek hero Melicertes, the son of the Boeotian prince Athamas and Ino, daughter of Cadmus was later called Palaemon.
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