Alcon
(Ἄλκων), or Alco.
1. A son of Hippocoon, and one of the Calydonian hunters, was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroum at Sparta. (Apollod. 3.10.5; Hyg. Fab. 173; Paus. 3.14.7, 15.3.)
2. A son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and father of Phalerus the Argonaut. (Apollon. 1.97; Hyg. Fab. 14.) Valerius Flaccus (1.399, &c.) represents him as such a skilful archer, that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurtinn his chlid. Virgil (Eclog. 5.11) mentions an Alcon, whom Servius calls a Cretan, and of whom he relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus.
Two other personages of the same name occur in Cicero (de Nat. Deor. 3.21), and in Hyginus. (Fab. 173.) [L.S]
a surgeon (vulnerum medicus) at Rome in the reign of Claudius, A. D. 41-54, who is said by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 29.8) to have been banished to Gaul, and to have been fined ten million of sesterces : H. S. centies cent. mill. (about 78,125l.). After his return from banishment, he is said to have gained by his practice an equal sum within a few years, which, however, seems so enormous (compare Albucius and Arruntius), that there must probably be some mistake in the text. A surgeon of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial (Epigr. 11.84) as a contemporary, may possibly be the same person. [W.A.G]
a statuary mentioned by Pliny. (H. N. 34.14. s. 40.) He was the author of a statue of Hercules at Thebes, made of iron, as symbolical of the god's endurance of labour. [C.P.M]
- Hdt. 6.127
- his shrine: Paus. 3.14.7
- slain by Herakles: Apollod. 3.10.5