In the mythic heroic past associated with Agamemnon, Argynnus, a young handsome boy from Boeotia, drowns in the Cephissus river while Agamemnon is at Aulis. In multiple ancient accounts Agamemnon, distressed by the loss of his beloved youth, buries him and establishes or honors a shrine to Aphrodite under the epithet linked to Argynnus (Aphrodite Argynnus). Variants in the tradition present Argynnus as a son of Pisidice and descendant of Athamas and Aeolus in some accounts, or as having associations with the god Hymenaeus in one reported tradition; other authors emphasize the personal grief of Agamemnon and the cultic foundation as etiological explanations for a local epithet of Aphrodite.
Surviving summaries describe Argynnus simply as a "young and handsome boy" from Boeotia. The cited sources provide no extended physical description or surviving iconography; details beyond his youth and attractiveness are not preserved in the attested accounts.
No supernatural powers or recurring magical abilities are attributed to Argynnus in the sources; he is consistently presented as a mortal youth. His posthumous influence is cultural and etiological: his drowning prompts commemoration and the establishment or naming of a local cult-epithet of Aphrodite (Aphrodite Argynnus). Narrative variants record his relational behavior (beloved by Agamemnon; in one account he flees Agamemnon's pursuit), but no supernatural agency, possessions, or magical actions are recorded.
Weaknesses
- otherNo supernatural weaknesses attested — Argynnus is presented as a mortal with no magical defenses
Wards
- otherNo protective wards attested — sources record cultic honoring rather than warding against Argynnus
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Community Record
- [1]Argynnus — Wikipedia. Wikipedia, entry 'Argynnus'.wiki
- [2]Argynnus — Wikidata. Wikidata item Q3622255.wiki
- [3]Phanocles (fragmentary — reported tradition). Phanocles (elegiac poet) — reported account: Agamemnon enamoured of Argynnus at Aulis; Argynnus drowns in the Cephissus and Agamemnon establishes the cult of Aphrodite Argynnus.literary
- [4]Athenaeus, Deipnosophists (summary). Athenaeus — reports Agamemnon mourns, buries Argynnus and honors him with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnus.literary
- [5]Propertius (Roman elegiac poet) — fragmentary reference. Propertius — treats Argynnus as a descendant of Athamas and connects Agamemnon's grief ('woe') to narrative consequences.literary
- [6]Plutarch (reported variant). Plutarch — records a variant in which Argynnus does not reciprocate Agamemnon's love and flees as Agamemnon pursues.literary
- [7]Stephanus of Byzantium (ethnica). Stephanus of Byzantium — names Argynnus a son of Pisidice and descendant of Athamas and Aeolus; briefly recounts his death.literary
- [8]Likymnios of Chios (as cited in Athenaeus). Likymnios of Chios (via Athenaeus) — reports an alternate tradition making Argynnus a lover of the god Hymenaeus.literary
- [9]Clement of Alexandria (reference). Clement of Alexandria — cited as including the episode in his writings (details not preserved in summaries).literary