Agamede

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title: "Agamede" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["ancient-greek-women", "greek-mythological-witches", "characters-in-the-iliad", "mythological-eleans", "mythology-of-lesbos"] description: "Several figures in Greek mythology" topic_path: "philosophy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamede" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Several figures in Greek mythology ::

Agamede () was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and legendary history. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Agamede.jpg" caption="The hill Vounaros was the location of ancient Agamede"] ::

• Agamede was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth. She was born in Elis, a princess as the eldest daughter of Augeas, King of the Eleans, and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by Nestor during a war between Elis and Pylos. Hyginus makes her the mother of Actor, Belus and Dictys by Poseidon. She was called Perimede by both Propertius and Theocritus. By the Hellenistic period (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like Circe or Medea.
• Agamede, a princess of Lesbos as the daughter of King Macar and possible sister to Methymna, Mytilene, Antissa, Arisbe and Issa eponyms also of the cities at Lesbos. Her possible brothers were Cydrolaus, Neandrus, Leucippus and Eresus. From Agamede, a place in Lesbos, was believed to have derived its name. The town of Agamede had already disappeared in Pliny's day. Ancient Agamede has been identified recently with the ancient ruins on a small hill called "Vounaros" 3 km north of ancient Pyrrha.

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References

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• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius 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.
• 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Sextus Propertius, Elegies from Charm. Vincent Katz. trans. Los Angeles. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Latin text available at the same website.
• Theocritus, Idylls from The Greek Bucolic Poets translated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1912. Online version at theoi.com
• Theocritus, Idylls edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

References

1. Bell, Robert E.. (1991). "Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary". ABC-CLIO.
2. [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0217:book=11:card=668&highlight=agamede 11.740]
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4. Schmitz, Leonhard. (1870). "[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]".
5. [[Gaius Julius Hyginus. Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]
6. [[Sextus Propertius. Propertius]], ''Elegies'' [https://archive.org/stream/propertiuswithen00propuoft/propertiuswithen00propuoft_djvu.txt 2.4]; [[Theocritus]], ''Idylls'' [https://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html#2 2.10]
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8. [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A12.11 Agamede (Ἀγαμήδη)]''
9. [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.6 5.81.6]
10. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#M465.5 ''Mytilēnē (Μυτιλήνη)'']
11. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A101.1 Antissa (Ἄντισσα)]''
12. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A119.3 Arisbe (Ἀρίσβη)]''
13. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#I339.14 Issa]''
14. Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.8 5.81.8]
15. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#E275.17 Eresos (Ἔρεσος)]''
16. [[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)
17. Cramer, John Anthony. (1832). "A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor". The University Press.
18. Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in ''Lesviaka'', 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002. https://www.academia.edu/1937262/The_discovery_of_ancient_Agamede_near_Pyrrha_on_Lesbos_island_in_Greek_

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