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Alectryon Pubescens
Alectryon may refer to: * Alectryon (mythology) *Alector Alector (; ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history: *Alector, son of Magnes (mythology), Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms of Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia and the town of Meliboea respectively. *Alector, the Boeotia, B ..., father of one of the Argonauts, referred to by Homer as "Alectryon" * ''Alectryon'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Sapindaceae {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alectryon (mythology)
Alectryon (from Ancient Greek: , ''Alektruášn'' , literally meaning "rooster") in Greek mythology, was a young soldier who was assigned by Ares, the god of war, to guard the outside of his bedroom door while the god took part in a love affair with the love goddess Aphrodite. Alectryon however failed at his job when he fell asleep, allowing Helios, the god of the Sun, to see the two lovers and alert Hephaestus, the husband of Aphrodite, who then caught the two lovers in the act. Enraged with Alectryon's incompetence, Ares changed him into a rooster in anger. In his effort to reconcile, Alectryon never skipped on alarming people of Helios's arrival thereafter. The story is an aetiological myth that attempts to explain both the origin of the roosters and the reason why they crow each morning at dawn, warning of the Sun approaching. The myth is not mentioned by Homer, who first related the story of Ares and Aphrodite's infidelity in his ''Odyssey'', but rather it was interpolated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alector
Alector (; ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history: *Alector, son of Magnes (mythology), Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms of Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia and the town of Meliboea respectively. *Alector, the Boeotia, Boeotian father of Leitus. Homer calls him "Alectryon (mythology), Alectryon", and Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus "Electryon", naming him among the sons of Itonus. According to John Tzetzes, Tzetzes, Alector was also the father of Clonius, Arcesilaus (mythology), Arcesilaus and Prothoenor (his nephews according to Diodorus) by different mothers: he is said to have fathered Leitus with Polybule, Arcesilaus with Cleobule, Prothoenor with Arteis, and Clonius with Acteis. *Alector, an Ancient Elis, Elean prince as the son of King Epeius, and brother of Hyrmine. Later on, he succeeded his father on the throne of Elis but in fear of the overlordship of King Pelops of Pisa, Greece, Pisa, he summoned Phorbas (son of Lapithes), Phorbas from Olenus (Aetol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |