Alector
Alector (Gr. Ἀλέκτωρ, gen.: Ἀλέκτορος) refers to more than one person in classical myth and history:[1]
- Alector, the father of Leitus, himself one of the Argonauts.[2] Homer calls him "Alectryon",[3] and Diodorus "Electryon".[4]
- Alector, a son of Anaxagoras and father of Iphis, king of Argos. He was consulted by Polyneices as to the manner in which Amphiaraus might be compelled to take part in the expedition against Thebes.[5][6]
- Alector of Sparta, son of Argeus and Hegesandra, father of Iphiloche (or Echemela), who married Megapenthes, son of Menelaus.[7]
- Alector of Elis, son of Epeius, brother of Hyrmine. He was allied with Phorbas of Thessaly. By Phorbas' daughter Diogeneia, he became father of Amarynceus.[8][9]
References
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alector (1) and (2)". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 109. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0118.html.
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, 1. 9. § 16
- ^ Homer, Iliad 17. 602
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 63. 7
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, 3. 6. § 2
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 18. § 4
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 4. 10 with scholia
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 69. 2
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica on Homer, pp. 303 & 1598
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).