Ialmenus(87 words)
[German version]
(Ἰάλμενος; Iálmenos). Son of Ares and Astyoche. Along with his twin brother Ascalaphus [2], he led the Minyan contingent at Troy (Hom. Il. 2, 511), and is therefore also mentioned as a suitor of Helen (Apollod. 3,130). After the capture of Troy, he makes his home in the Crimean region with Minyan settlers (Pherecydes, FGrH 3 F 143; Str. 9,2,42). Like his brother, I. was probably a figure of pre-Iliadic myth.
Visser, Edzard (Basle)
Bibliography
W. Kullmann, Die Quellen der Ilias, 1960, 70f.
Kamptz, 252.
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Visser, Edzard (Basle),
“Ialmenus”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 04 March 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e520830>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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