In
Greek mythology,
Teleon () may refer to the following two distinct characters:
[Apollonius Rhodius, 1.72 & 95 with scholia ad, 1.95]
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Teleon, also called Geleon (Γελέων),
[Herodotus, 5.66.2; Euripides, Ion 1579] the Athens son of Ion, eponym of the Ionians, and brother of Aegicores, Argades and Hoples. The earlier four tribes of Athens: Teleontes (Teleonites)/ Geleontes, Aegicoreis, Argadeis (Ergadeis) and Hopletes (Hoplites) were named after him and his siblings.[Herodotus, 5.66.2; Euripides, Ion 1575-1581; Julius Pollux, 8.109][Compare with Strabo, 8.7.1 (p. 383) where “. . .At first Ion divided the people into four tribes, but later into four occupations: four he designated as farmers, others as artisans, others as sacred officers, and a fourth group as the guards.” while Plutarch, Solon 23.4 states the “. . . four tribes were originally named, not from the sons of Ion, but from the classes into which occupations were divided; thus the warriors were called Hoplite, the craftsmen Ergadeis; and of the remaining two, the farmers were called Geleontes, the shepherds and herdsmen Aigikoreis.”] Later on, Teleon fathered Butes, one of the Argonauts,[Apollodorus, 1.9.16] by his naiad-wife Zeuxippe, daughter of the river god Eridanos.[Hyginus, Fabulae 14]
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Teleon, the Locrians father of Eribotes, another Argonaut. Apollonius describes Teleon as "virtuous" (ἀγαθός),
[Apollonius Rhodius, 1.96] but beyond that, no information on this figure is available.
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