Aethalides (Argonaut)

In Greek mythology, '''Aethalides''' ({{IPAc-en|ɪ|ˈ|θ|æ|l|ɪ|d|iː|z|,_|iː|ˈ|θ|æ|l|ɪ|d|iː|z}};<ref>{{cite book|last1=Avery|first1=Catherine B.|title=The New Century handbook of Greek mythology and legend|date=1972|publisher=Appleton-Century-Crofts|page=27|isbn=9780390669469|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYXrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22aethalides%22|access-date=8 April 2018}}</ref> Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδης) was one of the Argonauts together with his paternal step-brothers Erytus and Echion.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, [https://topostext.org/work/126#1.51 1.52-54]</ref> He was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of King Myrmidon of Phthia.<ref>{{Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | contribution = Aethalides | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 49 | place = Boston, MA | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0058.html | access-date = 2007-11-04 | archive-date = 2013-10-18 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131018015143/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0058.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>Apollonius Rhodius, [https://topostext.org/work/126#1.51 1.54-55]; ''Orphic Argonautica'' 131; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#14 14]</ref> Aethalides was born near the streams of Amphrysus.<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, [https://topostext.org/work/126#1.51 1.54]</ref>

== Mythology == Aethalides was the herald of the Argonauts,<ref>Apollonius Rhodius, 640; Valerius Flaccus, [https://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus1.html 1.437]</ref> and had received from his father the faculty of remembering everything, even in Hades. He was further allowed to reside alternately in the upper and in the lower world. As his soul could not forget anything even after death, it remembered that from the body of Aethalides it had successively migrated into those of Euphorbus, Hermotimus, Pyrrhus, and at last into that of Pythagoras, in whom it still retained the recollection of its former migrations.<ref>Diogenes Laërtius, ''Vitae Philosophorum'' [https://topostext.org/work/221#8.4 8.1.4]</ref>

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== References == * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica'' translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [https://topostext.org/work/126 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * Apollonius Rhodius, ''Argonautica''. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonautica'' translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/ValeriusFlaccus1.html Online version at theio.com.] * Gaius Valerius Flaccus, ''Argonauticon.'' Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0058 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Hyginus, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * ''The Orphic Argonautica'', translated by Jason Colavito. © Copyright 2011. [https://topostext.org/work/549 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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