Paeon (son of Poseidon)

In Greek mythology, Paeon was a son of Poseidon by Helle, who fell into the Hellespont. In some legends he was called Edonus.^[1] He was the brother of the giant Almops.^[2]

Notes

↑ Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 19; Hyginus, Poeticon astronomicon, 2.20; Smith, "Paeon 1.".
↑ Smith, "Almops"

Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Helle" p. 190
Hyginus. The Myths of Hyginus, translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
Pseudo-Eratosthenes, "The Constellations 19", in Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: a Sourcebook Containing the Constellations of Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the Poetic Astronomy of Hyginus, translated and edited by Theony Condos, Red Wheel/Weiser, 1997. ISBN 978-1-890482-93-0.
Smith, William, A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. London. Online at Perseus

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