InGreek mythology,Kydoimos orCydoemus/sɪˈdiːməs/ (Ancient Greek: ΚυδοιμόςKudoimós) was the personification of the din of battle,confusion, uproar and hubbub.^[1][2][3][4] He was probably numbered amongst theMakhai,daimones of the battlefield. Kydoimos appears inAristophanes'Peace as a character.^[5]

In the epic poem theShield of Heracles, attributed toHesiod, Proioxis was one of the many figures, depicted onHeracles' shield.^[6]

In his hands he (Herakles) took his shield, all glittering : no one ever broke it with a blow or crushed it. And a wonder it was to see . . . In the centre wasPhobos (Fear) worked in adamant, unspeakable, staring backwards with eyes that glowed with fire. His mouth was full of teeth in a white row, fearful and daunting, and upon his grim brow hovered frightfulEris (Battle-Strife) who arrays the throng of men: pitiless she, for she took away the mind and senses of poor wretches who made war against the son ofZeus . . . Upon the shieldProioxis (Pursuit) andPalioxis (Flight) were wrought, andHomados (Tumult), and Phobos (Panic), andAndroktasia (Slaughter). Eris (Battle-Strife) also, and Kydoimos (Confusion) were hurrying about, and deadlyKer (Fate) was there holding one man newly wounded. . .^[7]

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• Aristophanes,Peace fromThe Complete Greek Drama, vol. 2. Eugene O'Neill, Jr. New York. Random House. 1938.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Aristophanes,Aristophanes Comoediae edited by F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 1. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod,Shield of Heracles fromThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• Philostratus the Elder.Imagines, translated by Arthur Fairbanks (1864-1944). Loeb Classical Library Volume 256. London: William Heinemann, 1931.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major),Flavii Philostrati Opera. Vol 2. Carl Ludwig Kayser. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1871.Greek 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.
• Suida,Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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