Palaemon or Palaemonius (Ancient Greek: Παλαίμων, "wrestler") was a Calydonian or Olenian Argonaut, son of Hephaestus, Aetolus, or Lernus according to rival genealogies. Though lame like his smith-god father in the Hephaestus tradition, Apollonius stresses that none of his comrades dared scorn his bodily frame or his valour.
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I.Parentage and the Argo
Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollodorus, and Hyginus number Palaemon among those who sailed to Colchis. Hyginus makes him son of Lernus from Calydon; Apollodorus records alternative fathers Hephaestus or Aetolus, and the form Palaemonius appears beside Palaemon.
When he is son of the crippled god of smiths, the Argonautica notes that he too had crippled feet — yet his comrades would not mock his body or courage. The atlas residences place him at Calydon and among the muster at Pagasae.
II.Homonyms
This entry (palaemon-argonaut) is the Argonaut, not the sea-god Palaemon — the name Melicertes received upon deification after Ino's leap (melicertes in this atlas). Other Palaemons include a son of Heracles, a warrior who saw Amphiaraus swallowed by the earth, a Trojan prince son of Priam, and a pastoral figure in Virgil's third Eclogue.