Editing Autolycus (section)

==Family==
There are a number of different accounts of the birth of Autolycus. According to most, he was the son of [[Hermes]]<ref name=":3" /> and [[Chione (daughter of Daedalion)|Chione]]<ref name=":1">[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#201 201]</ref> or [[Philonis]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Catalogue of Women|Ehoiai]]'' fr. 64</ref> In [[Ovid]]'s version, Autolycus was conceived after Hermes had intercourse with the virgin Chione.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.11.eleventh.html 11] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504040621/http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.11.eleventh.html |date=2015-05-04 }}, translated by [[Samuel Garth]], [[John Dryden]], ''et al'' (MIT): "unresisted revels in her arms ...".</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]]  instead states that Autolycus' real father was [[Daedalion]].<ref name=":2">[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.4.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Autolycus 8.4.6]</ref><ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz72pKpgpx8C&dq=Pausanias+-+Autolycus%27+real+father+was+Daedalion&pg=PR59 Pausanias's Description of Greece (p. lix)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525100822/https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz72pKpgpx8C&dq=Pausanias+-+Autolycus%27+real+father+was+Daedalion&pg=PR59#v=onepage&q=Pausanias%20-%20Autolycus'%20real%20father%20was%20Daedalion&f=false |date=2024-05-25 }}, translated by [[James George Frazer|J G Frazer]], Cambridge University Press, 2012, {{ISBN|1108047238}}.</ref> In some accounts, his mother was also called Telauge.<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] ad Homer, p. 804</ref>

Depending on the source, Autolycus was the husband of [[Mestra]] (who could change her shape at will and was a daughter of [[Erysichthon of Thessaly|Erysichthon]]<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 8.738</ref><ref>I. Ziogas, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fMtJRSPGb6MC&dq=Autolycus+was+husband+to+Mestra&pg=PA136 Ovid and Hesiod: The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women (p. 136)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525100839/https://books.google.com/books?id=fMtJRSPGb6MC&dq=Autolycus+was+husband+to+Mestra&pg=PA136#v=onepage&q=Autolycus%20was%20husband%20to%20Mestra&f=false |date=2024-05-25 }}, Cambridge University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|1107007410}}. Ziogas states a detail of Ovid 8.738, "Mestra is not actually mentioned ''by name'' in Ovid 8. 738".</ref>), or of [[Neaera (Greek mythology)|Neaera]],<ref name=":2" /> or of [[Amphithea]].<ref>Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'' 19.394 & 416</ref> He became the father of [[Anticlea]] (who married [[Laertes (father of Odysseus)|Laertes]] [[Homer's Ithaca|of Ithaca]] and was the mother of [[Odysseus]]<ref name="Od1">Homer, ''Odyssey'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Od.+24.331&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136 24.334]</ref>) and several sons, of whom only [[Aesimus]], father of [[Sinon]] was named.<ref>[[Tryphiodorus]], [https://topostext.org/work/850#209 220], [https://topostext.org/work/850#291 294]  & [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Tryphiodorus.html f.n. 21] </ref> Autolycus' other daughter was [[Polymede]], mother of [[Jason]], the famous [[Argonauts|Argonaut]] who led a group of men to find the coveted [[Golden Fleece]].<ref name=":3">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Autolycus 1.9.16]</ref>

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|+Comparative table of Autolycus' family
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|''Homer''
|''Hesiod''
|''Apollodorus''
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|Daedalion
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|Mestra
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|Polymede
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