| has gloss | eng: The name Alcon can refer to a number of people from classical myth and history: *Alcon (or Alco), a son of Hippocoon, and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. He was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta. *Alcon, a son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and father of Phalerus the Argonaut. Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child. Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom Servius calls a Cretan, and of whom he relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus. *Alcon the Molossian (6th century BC) suitor of Agariste of Sicyon. *Alcon, a surgeon (vulnerum medicus) at Rome in the reign of Claudius, 41—54, who is said by Pliny to have been banished to Gaul, and to have been fined ten million sestertii. |