Alectryon (Greek myth) explained

In Greek mythology, Alectryon (grc|Ἀλεκτρυών|Alektruon|cock) may refer to the following personages:

• Alectryon, a young soldier who was assigned by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in a love affair with Aphrodite.^[1]
• Alectryon, also called Alector, father of Leitus,^[2] and in some accounts of Clonius, Arcesilaus and Prothoenor.^[3] All four were leaders of the Boeotian contingent against Troy.

Notes

1. Lucian Gallus, 3. For the myth, see also the scholiast to Aristophanes Av. 835; Eustathius ad Homer, Odysseam 1.300; Ausonius, 26.2.27; Libanius, Progymnasmata 2.26
2. Homer, Iliad 17.602
3. Book: [[Tzetzes]], John. Allegories of the Iliad. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. 2015. 978-0-674-96785-4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. 41, Prologue 533–536. Goldwyn. Adam. Kokkini. Dimitra.

References

• 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.
• Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Iliad translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.