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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Idmon was an Argonaut
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
 seer. His father is said to have been Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
 but his mortal father was Abas
Abas

The name Abas may refer to:*Abas , an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician.*Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troiea from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment....
. His mother was Asteria
Asteria

In Greek mythology, Asteria was a name attributed to five individuals:...
 (or Cyrene). He foresaw his own death in the Argonaut expedition but joined anyway and was killed by a boar
Boar

The wild boar , or colloquially simply called the boar, is an omnivorous, wikt:gregarious mammal of the family Suidae. It is native across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia, and has been introduced elsewhere....
 in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia
Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine ....
. When in 559 BC the citizens of Megara founded the city of Heraclea
Heraclea Pontica

Heraclea Pontica , an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus . It was founded by the Greek city-state of Megara c.560-558 and was named after Heracles who the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory ....
 (today's Eregli
Eregli

Eregli is a town and Districts of Turkey of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 126,117 of which 82,633 live in the town of Eregli....
), they built a temple over the spot he was buried.








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In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Idmon was an Argonaut
Argonauts

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
 seer. His father is said to have been Apollo
Apollo

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Apollo , is one of the most important and many-sided of the Twelve Olympians. The ideal of the kouros , Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of light and the sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts; and more....
 but his mortal father was Abas
Abas

The name Abas may refer to:*Abas , an ancient Greek sophist and rhetorician.*Abas, the ancient writer of a work entitled Troiea from which Maurus Servius Honoratus has preserved a fragment....
. His mother was Asteria
Asteria

In Greek mythology, Asteria was a name attributed to five individuals:...
 (or Cyrene). He foresaw his own death in the Argonaut expedition but joined anyway and was killed by a boar
Boar

The wild boar , or colloquially simply called the boar, is an omnivorous, wikt:gregarious mammal of the family Suidae. It is native across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia, and has been introduced elsewhere....
 in the land of the Mariandyni, in Bithynia
Bithynia

Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thrace Bosporus and the Euxine ....
. When in 559 BC the citizens of Megara founded the city of Heraclea
Heraclea Pontica

Heraclea Pontica , an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor, at the mouth of the river Lycus . It was founded by the Greek city-state of Megara c.560-558 and was named after Heracles who the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory ....
 (today's Eregli
Eregli

Eregli is a town and Districts of Turkey of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia Region, Turkey region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 126,117 of which 82,633 live in the town of Eregli....
), they built a temple over the spot he was buried.

Sources

  • Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Blackwell, 1986. ISBN 0631201025.
  • Seaton, R.C. (editor and translator). Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1912.