In Greek mythology, Hicetaon (Ancient Greek: Ἱκετάονα or Ἱκετάονος) may refer to:
- Hicetaon, a Trojan prince as the son of King Laomedon of Troy, thus a brother of King Priam.[1] He was one of the Trojan elders.[2] After Paris kidnapped Helen of Troy, Hicetaon suggested that she be returned to Menelaus to avoid war. His sons were: Melanippus, who died in the war Hicetaon had sought to avert;[3] Critolaus, husband of Priam's daughter Aristomache;[4] Thymoetes (in the Aeneid only, otherwise given as his brother);[5] and, possibly, Antenor.[6]
- Hicetaon, prince of Methymna in Lesbos. He was the son of King Lepetymnus and Methymna, daughter of King Macareus.[7] He was killed by Achilles, when the latter attacked the islands close to the mainland.[8]
- ^ Homer, Iliad 3.147; Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Dictys Cretensis, 4.22
- ^ Homer, Iliad 20.238
- ^ Homer, Iliad 15.547 & 576; Strabo, 13.1.7
- ^ Pausanias, 10.26.1
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.132
- ^ Eustathius on Homer, p. 349; scholia on Iliad 3.201
- ^ Parthenius, 21.3; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Methymna (Μήθυμνα)
- ^ Parthenius, 21.3