Idmon

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title: "Idmon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["sons-of-aegyptus", "argonauts", "metamorphoses-characters", "characters-in-the-argonautica"] description: "Disambiguation article" topic_path: "geography/egypt" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idmon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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In Greek mythology, Idmon (Ancient Greek: Ἴδμων means "having knowledge of" or "the knowing") may refer to the following individuals:

• Idmon, one of the fifty sons of Aegyptus, who married and was killed by the Danaid Pylarge.
• Idmon, father of Arachne, and perhaps her brother Phalanx too.
• Idmon, an Argonaut seer and son of Apollo or Abas, and Princess Cyrene.
• Idmon, herald of Turnus.
• Idmon, a figure briefly mentioned in Statius' Thebaid. He came from Epidaurus and was portrayed in the poem cleansing Tydeus' wounds after a battle.

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References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Vergil, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Statius*, The Thebaid* translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Grimal, Pierre. Entry for Idmon. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Blackwell, 1986. .
• Seaton, R.C. (editor and translator). Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1912.

References

1. [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)
2. [[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 6.8
3. ''[[Argonautica Orphica]]'' 185–187 & 721
4. [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 12.75
5. [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem). Thebaid]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/statiusstat01statuoft#page/478/mode/2up 3.399]

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