Argynnus

In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργυννος, romanized: Árgunnos), a boy from Boeotia,[1] when he drowned in the Cephisus river.[2] He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis.[3] This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria,[4] in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.[5]

It was said that Argynnus was a prince of Haliartus in Boeotia, one of the sons of king Copreus and queen Pisidice.[6]

According to Athenaeus, Likymnios of Chios, in his Dithyrambics, says that Argynnus was an eromenos of the god Hymenaeus.[7]

  1. ^ "Ἄργυννος". Logeion. The University of Chicago. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles. "Argynnus". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Project. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  3. ^ The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women, 80D (p. 603)
  4. ^ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus II.38.2
  5. ^ Butler, Harold Edgeworth & Barber, Eric Arthur, eds. (1933) The Elegies of Propertius. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 277
  6. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, A114.8
  7. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.80