Andraemon

The sources present multiple distinct persons named Andraemon rather than a single origin. In Aetolian tradition an Andraemon is husband of Gorge of Calydon and father of Thoas, succeeding his father-in-law Oeneus in power over Aetolia and—according to local memory—buried with his wife in a tomb shown at Amphissa. In epic/genealogical registers an Andraemon appears among the suitors of Penelope, listed as coming from Dulichium and slain by Odysseus. Variant colonization accounts (including a tradition preserved in Mimnermus as cited in later summaries) name an Andraemon, son of Codrus or otherwise linked to Pylos, as a participant in Greek settlement of Asia Minor who expelled the Carians from Lebedus and was associated with Colophon, with a tomb reported near that city. These attestations derive from the corpus of Greek mythographic sources summarized in modern references (Homeric and post‑Homeric epic lists, Apollodorus, Diodorus, Pausanias and fragmentary archaic poets as preserved in later summaries).

The surviving accounts provide no physical or iconographic description of any Andraemon. All attestations treat him as a named mortal—husband, father, king, suitor, or colonizer—without bodily detail. Where material culture is invoked, it is funerary/place‑memory: one Andraemon and his wife are said to be buried in a single tomb shown in Amphissa; another is reported to have a tomb shown near Colophon. No consistent or distinctive appearance is recorded in the provided sources.

No supernatural powers are attributed to any Andraemon in the supplied material. The recorded "abilities" are social and political actions appropriate to mortal heroes: dynastic succession (succeeding Oeneus' rule in Aetolia), familial roles (husband of Gorge; father of Thoas), participation in colonizing expeditions (expelling the Carians from Lebedus; linked to the foundation/fame of Colophon in variant accounts), and involvement in epic narrative events (listed among the suitors of Penelope and killed in Odysseus' slaughter of the suitors). These activities function within genealogical and civic storytelling rather than in a supernatural register.