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Agamede (Greek: Template:Polytonic) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical Greek mythology and history:

  • Agamede (c. twelfth century BC) was, according to Homer, a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth.[1] She was born in Elis, the eldest daughter of Augeas, King of the Epeans,[2] and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by Nestor during a war between Elis and Pylos.[3] Hyginus makes her the mother of Belus, Actor, and Dictys, by Poseidon.[4] She was called Perimede by both Propertius and Theocritus.[5][6] By the Hellenistic period (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like Circe or Medea.[7]
  • Agamede was a daughter of Macaria, from whom Agamede, a place in Lesbos, was believed to have derived its name.[3][8] The town had already disappeared in Pliny's day.[9][10]. Ancient Agamede has been identified recently, with the ruins (walls, graves) on a small hill called “Vounaros” 3 km north of ancient Pyrrha.[11]
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    The hill Vounaros, the location of ancient Agemede

References[]

  1. Homer. Iliad, xi. 739.
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  3. 3.0 3.1 Template:Cite book
  4. Hyginus. Fabulae, 157.
  5. Propertius. Elegies, 2.4.
  6. Theocritus. Idylls, 2.16.
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  8. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Template:Polytonic.
  9. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia V. xxix
  10. Template:Cite book
  11. Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in Lesviaka, 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002.

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