Alcon (classical history)

The name Alcon can refer to a number of people from classical myth and history:
*Alcon (or Alco), a son of Hippocoon, and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. He was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta. [Pseudo-Apollodorus, iii. 10. § 5] [Gaius Julius Hyginus, "Fabulae" 173] [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 14. § 7, 15. § 3]
*Alcon, a son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and father of Phalerus the Argonaut. [Apollonius of Rhodes, i. 97] [Gaius Julius Hyginus, "Fabulae" 14] Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child. [Valerius Flaccus, i. 399, &c.] Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom Servius calls a Cretan, and of whom he relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus. [Virgil, "Eclogues" v. 11]
*Alcon, a surgeon ("vulnerum medicus") at Rome in the reign of Claudius, 41—54, who is said by Pliny to have been banished to Gaul, and to have been fined ten million sestertii. [Pliny the Elder, "Naturalis Historia" xxix. 8] After his return from banishment, he is said to have gained by his practice an equal sum within a few years, which, however, seems so enormous that there must probably be some mistake in the text. A surgeon of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial as a contemporary, may possibly be the same person. [Martial, "Epigrams" xi. 84] cite encyclopedia | last = Greenhill | first = William Alexander | authorlink = | title = Alcon | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 108 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0117.html ]
*Alcon, a sculptor mentioned by Pliny. [Pliny the Elder, "Naturalis Historia" xxxiv. 14. s. 40] He was the author of a statue of Hercules at Thebes, made of iron, as symbolic of the god's endurance of labor.cite encyclopedia | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | authorlink = | title = Alcon | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 108 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0117.html ]
*Two other, otherwise unknown personages of the same name occur in Cicero and in Hyginus. [Cicero, "De Natura Deorum" iii. 21] [Gaius Julius Hyginus, "Fabulae" 173]

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