In Greek mythology, two people share the name Ascalaphus (Ασκάλαφος / Ἀσκάλαφος).

• (Ασκάλαφος ο δαίμων) Son of Acheron and Gorgyra or Orphne. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten a pomegranate in Hades. He was punished by being changed into an owl by sprinkling him with water from the river Phlegethon. (Ovid V, 534)
  
• (Ασκάλαφος ο Ορχομένιος) Son of Astyoche and Ares, King of Orchomenus. He was one of the Argonauts He led, with his brother Ialmenus, the Minyans of Orchomenus against Troy, and was slain by Deiphobus ( Il.ii. 512).

Ascalaphus Macaronius

Notes

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Apollodorus, 1.5.3.

Homer, Iliad 13.518

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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