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In [[Religion:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]] and history, there were at least eleven men named '''Medon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|iː|d|ən}}; [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]]: Μέδων, ''gen''.: Μέδοντος means "lord' or "ruler").

* Medon, one of the Tyrrhenian pirates who attempted to enslave [[Religion:Dionysus|Dionysus]] and were changed into fish or dolphin.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 3.671; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 184</ref>
*Medon, a [[Unsolved:Centaur|centaur]] at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 12.303</ref>
*Medon, one of the Dolionians, who was killed by the Argonauts.<ref>Valerius Flaccus, 3.118</ref>
*Medon, son of Eteoclus and accordingly a participant in the war of the Epigoni.<ref>Scholia on [[Biography:Homer|Homer]], ''[[Religion:Iliad|Iliad]]'' 4.404</ref>
*Medon, the son of Pylades and Electra and brother of Strophius.<ref>Pausanias, 2.16.7 citing Hellanicus</ref>
*Medon, one of the Achaean Leaders and half-brother of Ajax the Lesser. He was the son of Oileus, king of Locris, by [[Unsolved:Rhene (mythology)|Rhene]]<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.728</ref> or Alcimache.<ref>Scholia on Homer, ''Iliad'' 13.694</ref> He lived in Phylace, to where he had to flee after he had killed a relative of his stepmother Eriopis.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 13.694–697</ref> In the Trojan War, Medon took over Philoctetes' army after the latter was bitten by a snake and left on Lemnos because the wound festered and smelled bad.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.720–730</ref> Medon was killed by Aeneas.<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.332</ref>
*Medon, a "cunning craftsman" of Cilla, husband of [[Unsolved:Iphianassa|Iphianassa]] and father of Metalcas and Zechis, of whom the former was slain in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus, and the latter by Teucer.<ref>Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.296 & 10.125</ref>
*Medon, son of Antenor<ref name=":12">Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484</ref> and Theano, thus brother of Crino,<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.4</ref> Acamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 11.60 & 12.100; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807, p. 219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Agenor,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59, 21.545 & 579</ref> Antheus,<ref>Tzetzes on Lycophron, 134</ref> Archelochus,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464; Apollodorus, Epitome 3.34</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, ''Prologue'' 806–807|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Coön,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.248 & 256, 19.53</ref> Demoleon,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 20.395</ref> Eurymachus,<ref>Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> [[Biography:Glaucus (mythology)|Glaucus]],<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3</ref> Helicaon,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 3.123</ref> Iphidamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4</ref> Laodamas,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 15.516</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=283, 15.193|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}</ref> Laodocus,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 4.87</ref> Polybus<ref name=":0" /><ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 11.59</ref> and Thersilochus.<ref name=":12" /> Medon was killed by Philoctetes,<ref>Homer, ''Iliad'' 17.216; Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.483; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.481</ref> and later Aeneas met him in the Underworld.<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 6.483</ref>
*Medon, the faithful herald of Odysseus in [[Biography:Homer|Homer]]'s ''[[Religion:Odyssey|Odyssey]]''. Following the advice of his son Telemachus, Odysseus spares Medon's life after killing the suitors of Penelope who had been plaguing his halls in his homeland of Ithaca.<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 22.355–380</ref> Medon attempts to return the favor by speaking on behalf of his master, claiming that Odysseus' violence was not unwarranted by the gods.<ref>Homer, ''Odysseys'' 24.346–354</ref> 
*Medon, the "cruel"<ref>Ovid, ''Heroides'' 1.91</ref> suitor of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.<ref>Apollodorus, Epitome 7.26–27</ref> He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.<ref name=":1">Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33</ref>
* Medon (Μήδων), a son of Ceisus and grandson of Temenus. He was a king of Argos but his powers were limited to the minimum in favor of the people's self-government.<ref>Pausanias, 2.19.2</ref>
* Medon, son of [[Biography:Codrus|Codrus]], was the first archon of Athens. He was lame in one foot, which was why his brother Neileus would not let him rule, but the Delphian oracle bestowed the kingdom upon Medon.<ref>Pausanias, 7.2.1</ref>

==See also==
* Medon (disambiguation)

==Notes==
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== References ==
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*Dictys Cretensis'', from The Trojan War.'' ''The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian'' translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. [https://topostext.org/work/152 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
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*Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
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*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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* Tzetzes, John, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.


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