Argynnus

In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus, when he drowned in the Cephisus river.[1] He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis.[2] This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria,[3] in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.[4]

References
  1. Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles. "Argynnus". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Project. Retrieved 16 September 2011.
  2. The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women, 80D (p. 603)
  3. Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus II.38.2
  4. Butler, Harold Edgeworth & Barber, Eric Arthur, eds. (1933) The Elegies of Propertius. Oxford: Clarendon Press; p. 277
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