Alcon

The name Alcon appears across multiple independent classical traditions as the personal name of different mortal individuals. In Spartan genealogies an Alcon is listed among the sons of Hippocoon; other accounts place an Alcon in Athenian descent lines as a son and father within royal-family narratives; a separate Alcon is named among hunters associated with the Calydonian hunting milieu. These attestations come from compiled mythographic sources and later summaries that preserve the name in various local contexts rather than a single origin tale (see classical dictionary and mythographic summaries).

Surviving sources do not offer sustained physical descriptions of any recurring Alcon figure. Instead, individuals named Alcon are identified by parentage, locality, and notable deeds (for example, being a son of Hippocoon in Spartan lists, membership of a hunting band, or the archer who saved his child). Ancient notices therefore describe them by role and action rather than by distinctive physical traits.

Ancient sources attribute exceptional human skill—particularly in archery and hunting—to at least one figure named Alcon (notably an anecdote in which he shot a serpent entwining his son without harming the child). No supplied sources ascribe supernatural powers, immortality, or magical faculties to any Alcon; their capacities are presented as remarkable but human technical mastery within heroic-age narratives.