Coön Family
Coön was the brother of Crino ,[ 3] Acamas ,[ 4] [ 5] Agenor ,[ 6] [ 7] Antheus ,[ 8] Archelochus ,[ 9] [ 10] Demoleon ,[ 11] Eurymachus ,[ 12] Glaucus ,[ 13] Helicaon ,[ 14] Iphidamas ,[ 15] Laodamas ,[ 16] [ 17] Laodocus ,[ 18] Medon ,[ 19] Polybus ,[ 6] [ 20] and Thersilochus .[ 19]
Mythology
In the Iliad , he confronted Agamemnon over the body of his brother Iphidamas and wounded the opponent in the arm, but Agamemnon struck back and chopped Coön's head off.[ 21] The fight between Agamemnon and Coön was depicted on the chest of Cypselus according to Pausanias .[ 22]
Notes
↑ Pherecydes in scholia on Homer , Iliad 19.53
↑ Homer , Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
↑ Pausanias , 10.27.4
↑ Apollodorus , E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
↑ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad . Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806-807, p. 219, 11.44-46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4 .
1 2 Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad . Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 219, 11.44–46. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4 .
↑ Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron , 134
↑ Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
↑ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad . Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 61, Prologue 806-807. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4 .
↑ Homer, Iliad 20.395
↑ Pausanias, 10.27.3
↑ Virgil , Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, E.5.21; Dictys Cretensis , 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
↑ Homer, Iliad 3.123
↑ Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
↑ Homer, Iliad 15.516
↑ Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad . Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 283, 15.193. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4 .
↑ Homer, Iliad 4.87
1 2 Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
↑ Homer, Iliad 11.59
↑ Homer, Iliad 11.249-269; also briefly mentioned in Tzetzes, Homerica 194
↑ Pausanias, 5.19.4
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