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{{Short description|Characters in Greek mythology}}
'''Dexamenus''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ɛ|k|ˈ|s|æ|m|ᵻ|n|ə|s}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Δεξάμενος means "hospitable"<ref>Robin Hard. ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology (2004)''<br /></ref>) was a name attributed to at least three characters in [[Greek mythology]].

*Dexamenus, son of [[Oeceus]], and a king of [[Olenus (Aetolia)|Olenus]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 5.3.3</ref> The [[Centaur]] [[Eurytion]] forced him to betroth his daughter, [[Mnesimache]], to him.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], 2.5.5</ref> [[Heracles]] rescued the girl, killing Eurytion when he showed up to claim his bride. In another version of the tale, the girl was instead [[Deianira]], Heracles' future wife (elsewhere said to be a daughter of [[Oeneus]] or [[Dionysus]] and [[Althaea (mythology)|Althaea]]). Heracles violated her and promised her father that he would marry her. After his departure, Eurytion appeared, demanding Deianira as his bride. Her father, afraid, gave in, but Heracles reappeared just in time and slew the Centaur.<ref>[[Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 31 & 33</ref> In yet another variant, the daughter's name is [[Hippolyte (mythology)|Hippolyte]] and Eurytion threatens violence to her at her wedding feast (she having married [[Azan (mythology)|Azan]]); Heracles, who is also attending the feast, kills him.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.33.1</ref> Dexamenus' other children include [[Eurypylus]]<ref>Pausanias, 7.19.9</ref> and the twins [[Theronice]] and [[Theraephone]],<ref>Pausanias, 5.3.3</ref> both also married another set of twins, the [[Eurytus and Cteatus|Molionides]].
*Dexamenus, son of [[Heracles]] and father of [[Ambrax]], king of [[Ambracia]] (a city in [[Epirus]]).<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.50.4</ref>
*Dexamenus, son of [[Mesolus]] and [[Ambracia (mythology)|Ambracia]], the daughter of [[Phorbas]]. After him a part of the region [[Ambracia]] was called Dexamenae.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Dexamenai''</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''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. [https://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. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysus of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572 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.]
*Hard, Robin, ''The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology"'', Psychology Press, 2004, {{ISBN|9780415186360}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC Google Books].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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