Pelagon

Template:Short description There are several figures named Pelagon (Ancient Greek: Πελάγων, -ονος) in Greek mythology.

• Pelagon, king of Phocis and son of Amphidamas. He gave Cadmus the cow that was to guide him to Boeotia.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.4.1; Pausanias, 9.12.1; Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 638</ref>
• Pelagon, also called Pelasgus,<ref name=":0">Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1</ref> son of the river-god Asopus by the naiad Metope, daughter of the river Ladon.<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.6</ref> He was brother to Ismenus, Corcyra, Salamis, Aegina, Peirene, Cleone, Thebe, Tanagra, Thespia, Asopis, Sinope, Ornea, Chalcis,<ref name=":0" /> Harpina<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.73.1</ref> and Ismene.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.1.3</ref> His sisters were abducted by various gods as punishment for their father's deed.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.61.1 & 4.72.1; Apollodorus, 1.9.3, 2.1.3 & 3.12.6</ref>
• Pelagon, one of the suitors of Hippodamia before Pelops.<ref>Pausanias, 6.21.11</ref>
• Pelagon, one of the Calydonian hunters.<ref>Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.360</ref>
• Pelagon or Pelegon, who is given in the Iliad as the father of the Paeonian warrior Asteropaeus, son of the river-god Axius and Periboea, the daughter of Acessamenus.<ref>Homer, Iliad 21.142</ref> Presumably this Pelagon was the eponymous founder of Pelagonia.
• Pelagon, a native of Pylos who fought under Nestor in the Trojan War.<ref>Homer, Iliad 4.295</ref>
• Pelagon, an "illustrious" companion of the hero Sarpedon during the Trojan War, who removes Tlepolemus' spear from Sarpedon's thigh.<ref>Homer, Iliad 5.695; scholia on this line inform that he was also referred to as "Selagon"</ref>

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.