Didaeon is attested in archaic and Hellenistic genealogical sources as a son of King Eurytus of Oechalia and his wife (the mother is variably recorded as Antiope or Antioche). His appearance in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women fragments (e.g., Fragment 80 as preserved in later compilations) and in Hellenistic mythographic summaries (such as lists attributed to Apollonius Rhodius in later references) places him in the dynastic household of Eurytus. The sources present him as a named scion within that royal house rather than as an independently attested founder, hero, or deity; manuscript and author divergences record the mother’s name in different forms (Antiope/Antioche) but do not supply additional narrative for Didaeon.
No physical description of Didaeon is provided in the surviving sources; he is recorded only by name among his siblings. This lacuna is typical of many figures preserved in catalogues like the Hesiodic Eoiae, where numerous secondary scions are enumerated without accompanying attributes, iconography, or biographical details.
The cited materials do not attribute any powers, heroic deeds, cultic functions, or supernatural behaviors to Didaeon. He is consistently named alongside better-attested siblings (for example Iphitus, Clytius, and Iole) who receive narrative attention elsewhere; by contrast Didaeon appears only as a member of the family roster and has no documented exploits, roles, or posthumous cult in the provided sources.
Weaknesses
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Wards
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*Péh₂usōn (reconstructed)
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Aba (disambiguation / name-form)
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Abarbarea
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Abas
Abas (Ancient Greek: Ἄβας, gen.: Ἄβαντος) is not a single mythic being but a recurring personal name borne by multiple mortals and minor mythic figures in Greek epic and genealogical traditions — kings, founders, seers, warriors, attendants, a centaur, and a youth transformed by a goddess. The name is glossed in the sources as 'guileless' or 'good-hearted' and appears across Argive, Theban, Trojan, Euboean, and other local cycles.
Abderus
Abderus (Ancient Greek: Ἄβδηρος, romanized Ábdēros) is a mortal heroic figure in Greek myth closely associated with Heracles, remembered as the youth left in charge of the Mares of Diomedes who was killed by them. He functions as an eponymous local/divine-hero ancestor for the city of Abdera and received funerary commemoration and athletic agones at his tomb.
Abomination of Desolation
An apocalyptic prophetic phrase originating in the Book of Daniel designating a profaning thing or act that renders the Jerusalem Temple cult desolate; later reused in the Synoptic Gospels as an eschatological sign prompting urgent flight. The term denotes ritual/cultic impurity (Hebrew shiqquts) and is variously interpreted as pagan offerings or altar, a foreign cult statue, or (in some New Testament readings) an acting agent.
Absyrtus
Absyrtus (Ancient Greek: Ἄψυρτος) is a Colchian prince in the Greek Argonautic cycle, son of King Aeëtes and brother or half-brother of Medea. He appears in variant traditions either as a companion taken by Medea during her flight with Jason and murdered/dismembered to delay pursuit, or as a pursuer sent by Aeëtes who is overtaken and slain by Jason; his death functions as a key narrative device in the escape from Colchis.
Acacallis
Acacallis (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακαλλίς; also Acalle) is a mythological princess of Crete in Greek tradition, daughter of King Minos and Pasiphae. She functions primarily as a dynastic and etiological figure: in varying accounts she is mother, by gods such as Hermes (Mercury) or Apollo, of eponymous or founder-figures like Cydon (founder of Cydonia), Miletus, or Lydon/ Lydus.
Acacus
Acacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄκακος) is, in Arcadian Greek tradition, a mortal eponymous founder-king of Acacesium and is remembered as the foster-father who reared the infant Hermes (Mercury) in that local tradition. He is presented in genealogies as a son of Lycaon and functions as a local ancestral/onomastic figure rather than a supernatural spirit.
Academus
Academus (Greek: Akádemos / Hekádemos) is an Attic hero-eponym tied to a sacred grove (Akademeia) on the Cephissus near Athens. In myth he revealed where Helen was hidden to the Dioskouroi, an act said to have saved the city, and the place bearing his name became a long-lived sacred precinct, later the site of Plato's Academy.
Acamas
Acamas (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας) is a personal name recurrent in ancient Greek narrative traditions applied to multiple human characters (warriors, princes, suitors), once to a Cyclops, and once as a hound's name. Rather than a single supernatural entity, bearers of the name appear episodically across the Trojan War, Theseid, and Theban cycles as mortal actors whose deeds intersect with gods and fate.
Acantha
Acantha (Ancient Greek: Ἀκάνθα, 'thorn') is a late or secondary mythological figure known from modern retellings as a nymph transformed into the acanthus plant. The tale that she scratched Apollo and was changed into a spiny-leaved plant is not attested in surviving classical corpora and appears to be a modern compilation or invention rather than a firmly documented ancient myth.
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- [1]Didaeon — Wikipedia. Wikipedia entry 'Didaeon' (summarizes genealogical attestations, noting Antiope/Antioche variants and primary sources)wiki
- [2]Hesiod, Catalogue of Women (Fragment 80) — Theoi Classical Texts Library. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, Fragment 80 as preserved in collected fragments and cited in modern online compilations (lists Didaeon among the sons of Eurytus and Antiope)literary
- [3]Iphitus in Greek Mythology — Greek Legends and Myths. Modern summary of mythographic traditions concerning the house of Eurytus; lists siblings including Didaeon in genealogical summariesother
- [4]King Eurytus in Greek Mythology — Greek Legends and Myths. Modern mythographic overview of Eurytus' family that records Didaeon among the sons attributed to Eurytus and Antiope/Antiocheother
- [5]Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica (ebook compilation). Collected edition and discussion of Hesiodic fragments including Catalogue of Women material cited in genealogical contextsliterary
- [6]Wikidata: Didaeon. Wikidata entry collating identifiers and references for the minor mythological figure Didaeonother
- [7]Catalogues of Women and Eoiae — Mythagora (reference). Reference discussion of the Catalogue of Women and fragmentary genealogical lists preserving names such as Didaeonacademic
- [8]Greek Mythology Link — Damasen to Dracius / Antimache to Arsippe (name lists). Online name-list resources that preserve and reproduce classical name-lists and genealogical attestations including Didaeonother