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'''Agamede''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|æ|ɡ|ə|ˈ|m|iː|d|i}} ([[Ancient Greek]]: Ἀγαμήδη, meaning "very cunning"<ref>{{Cite book|last=[[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]]|title=The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|year=2017|isbn=9780241983386|pages=543}}</ref>) was a name attributed to two separate women in classical [[Greek mythology]] and [[legendary history]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bell|first=Robert E.|title=Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1991|isbn=9780874365818|pages=14}}</ref>
[[File:Agamede.jpg|thumb|The hill Vounaros was the location of ancient Agamede]]
* Agamede was, according to [[Homer]], a Greek physician acquainted with the healing powers of all the plants that grow upon the earth.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0217:book=11:card=668&highlight=agamede 11.740]</ref> She was born in [[Elis (city)|Elis]], a princess as the eldest daughter of [[Augeas]], King of the Epeans,<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Ogilvie | first1 =Marilyn |author-link = Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie | author2-link =Joy Harvey| last2=Harvey |first2=Joy | title =The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to Mid-20th Century | publisher =[[Routledge]] | year =2000 | url =https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict02ogil | url-access =registration | quote =agamede. | isbn = 0-415-92040-X | page =[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict00ogil/page/n113 23]-24 |volume=1}}</ref> and was married to Mulius, the first man killed in battle by [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]] during a war between Elis and [[Pylos]].<ref name="DGRBM">{{Cite book | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | contribution = Agamede (1) and (2) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 57 | place = Boston | year = 1870 | contribution-url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ACL3129.0001.001/72?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=agamede }}</ref> [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] makes her the mother of [[Actor (mythology)|Actor]], Belus and [[Dictys]] by [[Poseidon]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]</ref>  She was called [[Perimede (mythology)|Perimede]] by both [[Sextus Propertius|Propertius]] and [[Theocritus]].<ref>[[Sextus Propertius|Propertius]], ''Elegies'' [https://archive.org/stream/propertiuswithen00propuoft/propertiuswithen00propuoft_djvu.txt 2.4]; [[Theocritus]], ''Idylls'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html#2 2.10]</ref> By the [[Hellenistic period]] (c. 4th to 1st centuries BC), Agamede had become a sorceress-figure, much like [[Circe]] or [[Medea]].<ref>{{cite book | last =Dickie | first =Matthew | title =Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World | publisher =[[Routledge]] | year =2004 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=k3ONA1LMKv8C&q=agamede&pg=RA1-PA23 | isbn = 0-415-31129-2 | page =23}}</ref>
* Agamede, a princess of [[Lesbos]] as the daughter of King [[Macareus of Lesbos|Macar]]<ref name=":0">[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A12.11 Agamede (Ἀγαμήδη)]''</ref> and possible sister to [[Methymna (mythology)|Methymna]],<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.6 5.81.6]</ref> [[Mytilene (mythology)|Mytilene]],<ref name="Stephanus">Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. [https://topostext.org/work/241#M465.5 ''Mytilēnē (Μυτιλήνη)'']</ref> [[Antissa (mythology)|Antissa]],<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A101.1 Antissa (Ἄντισσα)]''</ref> [[Arisbe (mythology)|Arisbe]]<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A119.3 Arisbe (Ἀρίσβη)]''</ref> and [[Issa (mythology)|Issa]]<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#I339.14 Issa]''</ref> eponyms also of the cities at Lesbos. Her possible brothers were [[Cydrolaus]], [[Neandrus (mythology)|Neandrus]], [[Leucippus (mythology)|Leucippus]]<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#81.8 5.81.8]</ref> and [[Eresus (mythology)|Eresus]].<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#E275.17 Eresos (Ἔρεσος)]''</ref> From [[Agamede (Lesbos)|Agamede]], a place in [[Lesbos]], was believed to have derived its name.<ref name="DGRBM" /><ref name=":0" /> The town of [[Agamede (Lesbos)|Agamede]] had already disappeared in [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s day.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=5:chapter=39&highlight=agamede 5.29]</ref><ref>{{cite book | last =Cramer | first =John Anthony | title =A Geographical and Historical Description of Asia Minor | publisher =The University Press | year =1832 | url =https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft | quote =agamede. | page =[https://archive.org/details/geographicalhist01cramuoft/page/163 163] }}</ref> Ancient Agamede has been identified recently with the ancient ruins on a small hill called "Vounaros" 3&nbsp;km north of ancient [[Pyrrha (Lesbos)|Pyrrha]].<ref>Harissis H.V et al. article in Greek in ''Lesviaka'', 19;195-212, Mytilene 2002. https://www.academia.edu/1937262/The_discovery_of_ancient_Agamede_near_Pyrrha_on_Lesbos_island_in_Greek_</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* Bell, Robert E., ''Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary''. [[ABC-Clio]]. 1991. {{ISBN|9780874365818|0874365813}}.
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|The Library of History]]'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59&ndash;8. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
*Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Robert Graves|Graves, Robert]], ''The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition.'' Penguin Books Limited. 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-241-98338-6|024198338X}}
*[[Homer]], [[Iliad|''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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|The Natural History]].'' John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia.'' Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0138 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Propertius|Sextus Propertius]], ''Elegies'' from ''Charm.'' Vincent Katz. trans. Los Angeles. Sun & Moon Press. 1995. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0067 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0066 Latin text available at the same website].
* [[Theocritus]], ''Idylls'' from ''The Greek Bucolic Poets t''ranslated by Edmonds, J M. Loeb Classical Library Volume 28. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1912. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TheocritusIdylls1.html Online version at theoi.com]
* Theocritus, ''Idylls'' edited by R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0228 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]

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