Coön

Coön

Coön

Ancient Greek mythology character


In Greek mythology, Coön (Ancient Greek: Κόων, gen. Κόωνος), also known as Cynon (Κύνων),[1] was the eldest son of Antenor[2] and Theano. Like most of his brothers, he fought and fell in the Trojan War.

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

  1. Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53
  2. Pausanias, 10.27.4
  3. Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579
  7. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134
  8. Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464
  9. 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.
  10. Homer, Iliad 20.395
  11. Pausanias, 10.27.3
  12. Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3
  13. Homer, Iliad 3.123
  14. Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4
  15. Homer, Iliad 15.516
  16. 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.
  17. Homer, Iliad 4.87
  18. Virgil, Aeneid 6.484
  19. Homer, Iliad 11.59
  20. Homer, Iliad 11.249-269; also briefly mentioned in Tzetzes, Homerica 194
  21. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.19.4

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