Palaemon (mythology)

For other uses, see Palaemon.

In Greek mythology, Palaemon or Palaimon (Ancient Greek: Παλαίμων means 'wrestler') may refer to the following personages:

• Palaemon, the name that Melicertes, son of Athamas and Ino, received upon deification.^[1][2][3][4]
• Palaemon or Palaemonius,^[5] a Calydonian or Olenian Argonaut,^[6] son of either Hephaestus,^[7] Aetolus^[8] or Lernus.^[9] Since he was the son of the crippled god of smith, Palaemon had also crippled feet but no one among his comrades would dare to scorn his bodily frame and his valour.
• Palaemon, son of Heracles by either Autonoe, daughter of Pireus,^[10] or Iphinoe, daughter of Antaeus and Tinjis.^[11]
• Palaemon, a warrior in the army of the Seven Against Thebes who saw a chasm open in the earth and swallow Amphiaraus.^[12]
• Palaemon, a Trojan prince as son of King Priam of Troy.^[13]
• Palaemon, epithet of Heracles^{[citation needed]}
• Palaemon, a character in Virgil's third Eclogue