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: Ἴδμων means "having knowledge of" or "the knowing") may refer to the following individuals: *Idmon, one of the fifty sons of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Pylarge. * Idmon, father of Arachne, and perhaps her brother Phalanx too. * Idmon, an Argonaut seer and son of

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or Abas, and Princess Cyrene. * Idmon, herald of Turnus. * Idmon, a figure briefly mentioned in Statius' ''

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and was portrayed in the poem cleansing Tydeus' wounds after a battle. Statius, ''

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* Apollodorus, ''Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts,

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; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921
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* Vergil, ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910
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*Statius'', The Thebaid'' translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.
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*Grimal, Pierre
Entry for Idmon.
''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology.'' Blackwell, 1986. . *Seaton, R.C. (editor and translator). ''Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1912. * {{Greek myth index Sons of Aegyptus Argonauts Metamorphoses characters Characters in the Argonautica