Andraemon

The husband of Gorge, the daughter of the Calydonian king Oeneus, and father of Thoas. When Diomedes delivered Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by the sons of Agrius, he gave the kingdom to Andraemon, since Oeneus was already too old.1 Antoninus Liberalis2 represents Oeneus as resuming the government after his liberation. The tomb of Andraemon, together with that of his wife Gorge, was seen at Amphissa in the time of Pausanias.3

Apollodorus4 calls Oxylus a son of Andraemon, which might seem to allude to a different Andraemon from the one we are here speaking of; but there is evidently some-mistake here; for Pausanias5 and Strabo6 speak of Oxylus as the son of Haemon, who was a son of Thoas, so that the Oxylus in Apollodorus must be a great-grandson of Andraemon. Hence Heyne proposes to read Αἵυονος (Haiuonos) instead of Ἀνδραίμονος (Andraimonos).

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 8.1 and 6; Homer. Iliad ii, 638; Pausanias. Description of Greece v, 3.5.
  2. 37.
  3. Description of Greece x, 38.3.
  4. The Library ii, 8.3.
  5. l.c.
  6. x, 463 ff.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.