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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Idmon''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ἴδμων means "having knowledge of" or "the knowing") may refer to the following individuals:

*Idmon, one of the [[Sons of Aegyptus|fifty sons]] of [[Aegyptus]], who married and was killed by the [[Danaus|Danaid]] [[Pylarge (mythology)|Pylarge]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]]'','' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=2:chapter=1&highlight=Idmon 2.1.5]</ref>
* Idmon, father of [[Arachne]],<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 6.8</ref> and perhaps her brother [[Phalanx (mythology)|Phalanx]] too.
*[[Idmon (Argonaut)|Idmon]], an [[Argonauts|Argonaut]] seer and son of [[Apollo]] or [[Abas (mythology)|Abas]], and Princess [[Cyrene (mythology)|Cyrene]].<ref>''[[Argonautica Orphica]]'' 185–187 & 721</ref>
* Idmon, herald of [[Turnus]].<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 12.75</ref>
* Idmon, a figure briefly mentioned in [[Statius]]' ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]''. He came from [[Epidaurus]] and was portrayed in the poem cleansing Tydeus' wounds after a battle.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/statiusstat01statuoft#page/478/mode/2up 3.399]</ref>

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==References==
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]]; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Virgil|Vergil]], ''Aeneid.'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*Statius'', The Thebaid'' translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928.  [https://topostext.org/work/149 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*Grimal, Pierre. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATUZ1H3kkRwC&dq=idmon&pg=PA228 Entry for Idmon.]  ''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology.''  Blackwell, 1986.  {{ISBN|0-631-20102-5}}.
*Seaton, R.C. (editor and translator). ''Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica''. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1912.
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514042129/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1670.html William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, v. 2, page 562, under ''Idmon'']}}
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