- In Gr**** mythology, the name
Maeon or
Maion (Ancient Gr****: Μαίων, romanized: Maíon) may
refer to:
Maeon of Thebes, son of Haemon,
endowed with prophetic...
- death. In Euripides' Antigone,
Haemon marries Antigone and they have a son,
Maeon; in his
Phoenician Women Antigone declares that she will kill
Haemon and...
- a
force of
fifty men, led by
Maeon and Polyphontes, and
ambushed him.
Tydeus killed every man with the
exception of
Maeon, whom he
allowed to live due...
- Hesiod. When
Apelles died, he
named his
brother Maeon guardian of his daughter, Critheïs. But
Maeon deflowered his niece, and to
escape the
shame of...
- of
Polynices Haemon and
Antigone married Haemon and
Antigone had a son
Maeon Modern scholars interpret Aristophanes comment to
indicate that Euripides'...
- dragon-like mark in
their body. King
Creon used it to
recognize his
grandson Maeon, who had been
raised in
secret without his knowledge. Similarly,
Jason was...
- Argonauts. It may also have
derived from Dindyme, a name of the wife of
Maeon and
mother of Cybele. In 1847, a
trilobite genus was
named after her. Nonnus...
- off by him and
concealed in a shepherd's hut,
where she
bears him a son,
Maeon. When the boy
grows up, he
attends some
funeral games at Thebes, and is...
- and (with Athena's help) won
every one. In anger,
fifty Thebans, led by
Maeon, Haemon's son, and Polyphontes, Autophonus' son,
ambushed Tydeus as he was...
- single-handedly
kills all but one
Theban soldier.
Maeon, the only survivor,
returns to the palace. Book 3:
Maeon accuses Eteocles of
causing the
death of dozens...
