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]