Argynnus

In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργυννος, romanized: Árgunnos), a boy from Boeotia,^[1] when he drowned in the Cephisus river.^[2] He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis.^[3] This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria,^[4] in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.^[5]

It was said that Argynnus was a prince of Haliartus in Boeotia, one of the sons of king Copreus and queen Pisidice.^[6]

According to Athenaeus, Likymnios of Chios, in his Dithyrambics, says that Argynnus was an eromenos of the god Hymenaeus.^[7]

Notes

^ "Ἄργυννος". Logeion. The University of Chicago. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles. "Argynnus". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Project. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
^ The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women, 80D (p. 603)
^ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus II.38.2
^ Butler, Harold Edgeworth & Barber, Eric Arthur, eds. (1933) The Elegies of Propertius. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 277
^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, A114.8
^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, 13.80

Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.