# Molion

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In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), **Molion** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek): Μολίονα) may refer to the following personages:

- Molion, an [Oechalian](/source/Oechalia_(Messenia)) prince as son of King [Eurytus](/source/Eurytus_of_Oechalia) and [Antiope](/source/Antiope_(Greek_myth))[1] or [Antioche](/source/Antioche_(mythology))[2] and brother of [Clytius](/source/Clytius) and [Toxeus](/source/Toxeus). All three were slain by [Heracles](/source/Heracles).[3] His other siblings were [Iole](/source/Iole), [Deioneus](/source/Deioneus), [Didaeon](/source/Didaeon) and [Iphitos](/source/Iphitos).[4]
- Molion, a [Trojan](/source/Troy) squire of [Thymbraeus](/source/Thymbraeus), son of the seer [Laocoon](/source/Laoco%C3%B6n). He was killed by the hero [Odysseus](/source/Odysseus).[5]
- Molion, an [Achaean](/source/Achaeans_(Homer)) warrior who was killed by the [Amazon](/source/Amazons) Queen [Penthesilia](/source/Penthesilea).[6]

## Notes

1. [Apollonius of Rhodes](/source/Apollonius_of_Rhodes), 1.86

1. [Scholiast](/source/Scholia) *on [Sophocles](/source/Sophocles), [Trachiniae](/source/Women_of_Trachis)* [266](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/348/348-h/348-h.htm#link2H_4_0081) as cited in [Hesiod](/source/Hesiod), The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, *The Taking of Oechalia* fr. 4

1. [Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), 4.37.5

1. [Hesiod](/source/Hesiod), *[Ehoiai](/source/Catalogue_of_Women)* fr. 79

1. [Homer](/source/Homer), *[Iliad](/source/Iliad)* 11.322

1. [Quintus Smyrnaeus](/source/Quintus_Smyrnaeus), 1.227

## References

- [Apollonius Rhodius](/source/Apollonius_of_Rhodes), *Argonautica* translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. [Online version at the Topos Text Project.](https://topostext.org/work/126)
- Apollonius Rhodius, *Argonautica*. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0227).
- [Diodorus Siculus](/source/Diodorus_Siculus), *The Library of History* translated by [Charles Henry Oldfather](/source/Charles_Henry_Oldfather). Twelve volumes. [Loeb Classical Library](/source/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](http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html)
- 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](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540).
- [Hesiod](/source/Hesiod), *Catalogue of Women* from *Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica* translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. [Online version at theio.com](http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html)
- [Homer](/source/Homer), [*The Iliad*](/source/Iliad) with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796, ISBN . [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134)
- Homer, *Homeri Opera* in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318, ISBN . [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133).
- [Quintus Smyrnaeus](/source/Quintus_Smyrnaeus), *The Fall of Troy* translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [Online version at theio.com](http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html)
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, *The Fall of Troy*. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490).

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