Agelaus or Agelaos (The name is a compound of two ancient Greek elements — ἀγέλη (agelē), meaning "herd," "flock," or a gathered crowd/assembly and λαός (laos), meaning "the people" or "the host/soldier assembly.") is, in Greek mythology, the name of various individuals.
Agelaus, father of Antheus of Lyctus. He fought in the army of Dionysus during his campaigns in India.Nonnus, 35.382 Agelaus, an Arcadian prince as the son of King Stymphalus. He was the father of Phalanthus.Pausanias, 8.35.9 Agelaus, also Ageleus (Ageleos),Antoninus Liberalis, 2 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses a Calydonian prince as the son of King Oeneus and Queen Althaea.Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 98 Evelyn-White = fr. 25 Merkelbach–West Agelaus, son of Heracles and Omphale, and ancestor of Croesus. In other sources this son is instead called Lamus.Apollodorus, 2.7.8, f.n. 228 Agelaus, a common herdsman (or slave of Priam) who saved the life of the Trojan prince Paris, exposed as an infant on Mount Ida, owing to a prophecy that he would be the reason for the destruction of Troy, and brought him up as his own son.Apollodorus, 3.12.5 Agelaus, son of Maion. He was a Trojan warrior and killed, during the Trojan War, by Ajax.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 3.229 Agelaus of Miletus, son of Hippasus. He fought against the Greeks as part of contingent of Nastes in the Trojan War and was killed by Meges.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.300 Agelaus, son of Phradmon, and a Trojan warrior. He was killed during the war by Diomedes.Homer, Iliad 8.253 Agelaus, son of Evenor, and one of the attendants of Acamas during the Trojan War.Quintus Smyrnaeus, 4.365 Agelaus, a Greek warrior slain by Hector during the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad 11.299 Agelaus, or Agelaos, son of Damastor and one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Same along with other 22 wooers.Homer, Odyssey 22.241 & 293; Apollodorus, E.7.28 He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.Apollodorus, E.7.33 Agelaus, son of Temenus and descendant of Heracles. Agelaus, along with his brothers (Eurypylus and Callias), hired men to kill his father, since he gave his favour to their sister Hyrnetho and her husband Deiphontes. When this was discovered, the people gave the throne to Deiphontes and Hyrnetho.Apollodorus, 2.8.5
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