Haemon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Haemon /ˈhiːmɒn/ or Haimon (Ancient Greek: Αἵμων Haimon "bloody"; gen.: Αἵμωνος) may refer to the following personages and a creature:

• Haemon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon^[1] either by the naiad Cyllene,^[2] Nonacris^[3] or by unknown woman. He was credited to be the eponymous founder of the town of Haemoniae.^[4] Haemon and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Haemon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.^[5]
• Haemon, the eponym of Haemonia (ancient Thessaly) and the son of Chlorus, son of Pelasgus.^[6] In some accounts, he was instead identified as the son of Pelasgus.^[7] Haemon was the father of Thessalus who gave his name to Thessaly after.^[8]
• Haemon, father of Aechme who became the wife of the Argive Polypheides and by him the mother of Theoclymenus and Harmonides.^[9]
• Haemon, son of Creon and Eurydice, fiancé of Antigone.^[10]
• Haemon, son of Thoas and father of Oxylus.^[11]
• Haemon, a descendant of Magnes and father of Hyperochus, father of Tenthredon,^[12] father of Prothous.^[13][14]
• Haemon, father of Elasippus, one of the Achaean soldiers who fought at Troy. His son was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea.^[15]
• Haemon, a Pylian soldier who fought under their leader Nestor during the Trojan War.^[16]
• Haemon, one of Actaeon's dogs.^[17]