Alcimedon

Alcimedon (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people in Greek mythology and history:

*Alcimedon, an Arcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He had a daughter named Phillo, by whom Heracles had a son, Aechmagoras, whom Alcimedon exposed, but Heracles saved. [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" viii. 12. § 2]
*Alcimedon, one of the Tyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infant Dionysus from Naxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into a dolphin. [Ovid, "Metamorphoses" iii. 618] [Gaius Julius Hyginus, "Fabulae" 134]
*Alcimedon, a son of Laerceus, and one of the commanders of the Myrmidons under Patroclus. [Homer, "Iliad" xvi. 197, xvii. 475, &c.] cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alcimedon 1-3 | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 102 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0111.html ]
*Alcimedon, an embosser or chaser, spoken of by Virgil, who mentions some goblets of his workmanship. [Virgil, "Eclogues" iii. 37, 44] cite encyclopedia | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | authorlink = | title = Alcimedon 4 | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 102 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0111.html ]

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