Alcimedon (/alkĭ'mĭdon/;Ancient Greek: Ἀλκιμέδων) can refer to a number of people inGreek mythology and history:

• Alcimedon, one of theTyrrhenian sailors, who wanted to carry off the infantDionysus fromNaxos, but was metamorphosed, with his companions, into adolphin.^[1]
• Alcimedon, anArcadian hero, from whom the Arcadian plain Alcimedon derived its name. He lived in a place near MountOstracina and had a daughter namedPhialo, by whomHeracles had a son,Aechmagoras. Alcimedonexposed the latter but Heracles saved him.^[2]
• Alcimedon, a son ofLaerceus, and one of the commanders of theMyrmidons underPatroclus.^[3]
• Alcimedon, a craftsman, mentioned or imagined by the Latin poetVirgil in hisEclogue 3, who had made two pairs of cups, one pair decorated with pictures ofConon of Samos and another astronomer, and the other pair with a picture ofOrpheus.^[4]

• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus,The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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