Alector

Alector (/əˈlɛktər/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλέκτωρ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history:[1]

• Alector, son of Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms of Magnesia and the town of Meliboea respectively.[2]
• Alector, the father of Leitus.[3] Homer calls him "Alectryon",[4] and Diodorus "Electryon", naming him among the sons of Itonus.[5] According to John Tzetzes, Alector was also the father of Clonius, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor (his nephews according to Diodorus) by different mothers: he is said to have fathered Leitus with Polybule, Arcesilaus with Cleobule, Prothoenor with Arteis, and Clonius with Acteis.[6]
• Alector of Elis, son of Epeius, brother of Hyrmine. He was allied with Phorbas of Thessaly. By Phorbas' daughter Diogeneia, he became father of Amarynceus.[7][8]
• Alector, a son of Anaxagoras and father of Iphis, king of Argos.[9][10]
• Alector of Sparta, son of Argeus and Hegesandra, father of Iphiloche (or Echemela), who married Megapenthes, son of Menelaus.[11]

Notes

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alector (1) and (2)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 109. Archived from the original on 2007-04-05.
2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 338
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.16
4. Homer, Iliad 17. 602
5. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.63.7
6. Tzetzes, Allegoriae Iliadis, Prologue 533–536
7. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.69.2
8. Eustathius of Thessalonica on Homer, pp. 303 & 1598
9. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.6.2
10. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.18.4
11. Homer, Odyssey 4.10 with scholia

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1–2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alector". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.