Alebion

In Greek mythology, Alebion or Albion ( _gr. polytonic|Ἀλεβίων or polytonic|Ἀλβίων) was a son of Poseidon and brother of Dercynus (also called Bergion) who attacked Heracles with Dercynus when he passed through their country, Liguria, with the oxen of Geryon.cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Albion | editor = William Smith | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 94 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0103.html ] Both of the brothers were killed by Heracles. [Apollodorus, ii. 5. § 10] [Pomponius Mela, ii. 5. § 39] The Scholiast on Lycophron writes that the brother of Alebion was named Ligys. [Scholiast on Lycophron, 648] The story is also alluded to in Hyginus and Dionysius. [Hyginus, "Poet. Astr." ii. 6] [Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. 41]

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