Automedon

• A son of Diores and charioteer of Achilles, Verg. A. 2, 477.—Hence,
• II Meton. for a charioteer, in gen., Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 98; Juv. 1, 61.

(Αὐτομέδων), a son of Diores, was, according to Homer, the charioteer and companion of Achilles, whereas Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 97) makes him sail by himself with ten ships against Troy. According to Virgil (Aen. 2.476), he fought bravely by the side of Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles. (Hom. Il. 9.209, 16.148, 219, 17.429, &c., 19.392, 24.474.) [L.S]

(Αὐτομέδων), of Cyzicus, a Greek epigrammatic poet.

He must have lived in the first century of the Christian era, as one of his poems is addressed to Nicetes, a distinguished orator in the reign of Nerva. One of the epigrams usually attributed to Theocritus (Anth. Graec. 7.534; No. 9, in Kiessling's edition of Theocritus, p. 778) has in the manuscript the inscription Αὐτομέδοντος Αἰτωλοῦ : if this is correct there must have been an Aetolian poet of the name of Automedon. Works Epigrams

Twelve of his epigrams are contained in the Greek Anthology. (5.129, 10.23, 11.29, 46, 50, 319, 324-326, 346, 361, 12.34.)

(Αὐτομέδων). Son of Diores; the comrade and charioteer of Achilles (q.v.), and afterwards of Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.