Alcimedon (; The name combines Alke (ἀλκή), meaning strength, prowess, courage, or defensive power and Medon (μέδων), meaning ruler, master, or protector (from the verb medō, to rule or guard).) can refer to a number of people in Greek mythology and history:
Alcimedon, one of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a dolphin.Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.581-691; Hyginus, Fabulae 134 Alcimedon, an Arcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He lived in a place near Mount Ostracina and had a daughter named Phialo, by whom Heracles had a son, Aechmagoras. Alcimedon exposed the latter but Heracles saved him.Pausanias, 8.12.2 Alcimedon, a son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus.Homer, Iliad 16.197; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.448 ff. He is sometimes conflated with Alcimus, friend of Achilles. Alcimedon, a craftsman, mentioned or imagined by the Latin poet Virgil in his Eclogue 3, who had made two pairs of cups, one pair decorated with pictures of Conon of Samos and another astronomer, and the other pair with a picture of Orpheus.Virgil, Eclogue 3.37 and 44. Alcimedon, a Locrian companion of Ajax the Lesser during the Trojan War. During Eurypylus' attack on the Greek camp, he killed Hippasides, the charioteer of Prince Pammon, son of Priam.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6 Later, as he attempted to climb up the walls of Troy, Aeneas dropped a stone on him, killing Alcimedon.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 9
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