In Greek mythology, Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus (Ancient Greek: Ἄργυννος, romanized: Árgunnos), a boy from Boeotia,[1] when he drowned in the Cephisus river.
[2] He buried him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis.
[3] This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria,[4] in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations.
[5] It was said that Argynnus was a prince of Haliartus in Boeotia, one of the sons of king Copreus and queen Pisidice.
[6] According to Athenaeus, Likymnios of Chios, in his Dithyrambics, says that Argynnus was an eromenos of the god Hymenaeus.