In Greek mythology, Aethalides (/ɪˈθælɪdz, ˈθælɪdz/;[1] Ancient Greek: Αἰθαλίδης) was a son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of King Myrmidon of Phthia.[2][3]

Mythology

Aethalides was the herald of the Argonauts,[4] 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.[5]

Notes

  1. Avery, Catherine B. (1972). The New Century handbook of Greek mythology and legend. Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 27. ISBN 9780390669469. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
  2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aethalides", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 49, archived from the original on 2013-10-18, retrieved 2007-11-04{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 14; Argonautica Orphica 131
  4. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54 & 640; Valerius Flaccus, 1.437
  5. Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae Philosophorum 8.1.4

References

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

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