Haemon
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
- a son of Creon, king of Thebes, the lover of Antigone, Prop. 2, 8, 21; Ov. Tr. 2, 402; id. Ib. 563; Hyg. Fab. 72.
(Αἕμων).
1. A son of Pelasgus and father of Thessalus. The ancient name of Thessaly, viz. Haemonia, or Aemonia, was believed to have been derived from him. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. 3.1090; Plin. H. V. 4.14.)
2. A son of Lycaon, and the reputed founder of Haemonia in Arcadia. (Paus. 8.44.2; Apollod. 3.8.1.)
3. A son of Creon of Thebes, perished, according to some accounts, by the sphinx. (Apollod. 3.5.8; Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 1760.) But, according to other traditions, he survived the war of the Seven against Thebes, and he is said to have been in love with Antigone, and to have made away with himself on hearing that she was condemned by his father to be entombed alive. (Soph. Antig. 627, &c.; Eur. Phoen. 757, 1587; Hyg. Fab. 72.) In the Iliad (4.394) Macon is called a son of Haemon. [L.S]
(Αἵμων). (1) The son of Pelasgus and father of Thessalus, from whom the ancient name of Thessaly, Haemonia or Aemonia, was believed to be derived. The Roman poets frequently use the adjective Haemonius as equivalent to Thessalicus.
(2) Son of Creon of Thebes, and in love with Antigoné. He killed himself on hearing that she had been condemned by his father to be entombed alive.
- Paus. 5.4.6
- killed by the Sphinx: Apollod. 3.5.8
- Paus. 5.3.6