Agathyrnus

Agathyrnus (ancient Greek Ἀγάθυρνος) is a person of Greek mythology.

He is the son of the Aeolean ancestor Aeolus and eponymous hero of the city of Agathyrnon in Sicily. [1] An image of Agathyrnus can be found on a coin found in Tyndaris, on which he is depicted as a warrior with a shield and lance. The coin is dated around the year 344 BC. . [2]

Literature

Georg Knaack: Agathyrnos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 764.
Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Agathyrnos. In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Ed.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology. Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 99 (digitized version).

Remarks
Diodorus 5, 8.
Barclay Vincent Head: Historia Numorum. A Manual of Greek Numismatics, 2nd edition. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1911, p. 189.

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