Lamedon

Family: Sicyonian mythology · Role: younger son of Coronus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 5

In Book 2, Chapter 5, Lamedon is identified as the younger son of Coronus and brother of Corax. After Epopeus died of his wound in Chapter 6, Lamedon became king by giving Antiope up.

As king, Lamedon married Pheno, daughter of Clytius. Later, during a war with Archander and Architeles, he invited Sicyon from Attica to help and gave him his daughter Zeuxippe in marriage; when Sicyon became king, the region and town took his name.

Relationship record

Life events

• Coronus has two sons, Corax and the younger Lamedon.(Book 2 · Chapter 5)
  • With: Coronus (son of Apollo) Corax
  • “And Coronus had Corax and a younger son Lamedon.”
• Epopeus died of his wound, and Lamedon became king by surrendering Antiope.(Book 2 · Chapter 6)
  • With: Epopeus Antiope
  • “But afterwards Epopeus chanced to die of his wound which had been originally neglected, so Lycus had no longer any need of war, for Lamedon (the son of Coronus) the king after Epopeus gave Antiope up.”
• Lamedon married Pheno and gave Zeuxippe to Sicyon, who became king and namesake of the region.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · 📍 Sicyon)
  • With: Sicyon Zeuxippe
  • “And King Lamedon married a wife from Athens, Pheno the daughter of Clytius: and afterwards, when there was war between him and Archander and Architeles, the sons of Achæus, he invited Sicyon from Attica to help him, and gave him his daughter Zeuxippe in marriage, and when he became king the region got called after him Sicyonia, and the town Sicyon instead of Ægialea.”

Book 2 · Chapter 5

• parent: Coronus (son of Apollo) (parent->child) “And Coronus had Corax and a younger son Lamedon.”
• siblings with Corax (They are both sons of Coronus.) “And Coronus had Corax and a younger son Lamedon.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6

• with Epopeus (interaction) “Lamedon (the son of Coronus) the king after Epopeus”
• married with Pheno “King Lamedon married a wife from Athens, Pheno the daughter of Clytius”
• child: Zeuxippe “gave him his daughter Zeuxippe in marriage”
• with Clytius (Clytius is identified in the passage as Lamedon's father-in-law.) “Ianiscus the descendant of Clytius, the father in law of Lamedon, came from Attica”
• parent: Coronus (son of Apollo) “Lamedon (the son of Coronus)”
• with Sicyon (interaction) “he invited Sicyon from Attica to help him”
• with Ianiscus (interaction) “Ianiscus the descendant of Clytius, the father in law of Lamedon”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.