Editing Alectryon (mythology) (section)

== Mythology ==
{{rquote|right|And in memory of why he suffered this, before the Sun god yokes his chariot he drives away men's sleep through song.|[[Libanius]], ''[[Progymnasmata]]'' 2.26<ref name=":lib"/>}}

According to [[Lucian]], Alectryon was said to have been 'an adolescent boy, beloved of Ares, who kept the god company at drinking parties, overindulged with him, and was his companion in lovemaking'. [[Ares]], fearing that his affair with [[Aphrodite]] would be found out and then he would be told on by Helios, the sun god, especially because of his suspicions that he would tell [[Hephaestus]], the god of forgery and the husband of Aphrodite, commanded Alectryon to stand outside his door and watch for [[Helios]], the god of the sun who saw everything, or anyone else, to bear witness to his affair.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Gallus'' [http://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=home:texts_and_library:dialogues:the-rooster#section3 3]</ref><ref>[[Scholia]]st on [[Aristophanes]]' ''[[Birds (play)|Aves]]'' [https://archive.org/details/scholiaonavesar01whitgoog/page/n272/mode/2up?view=theater 835]</ref><ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] ad [[Homer]], [[Odyssey|Odysseam]] 1.300</ref>

So Alectryon stood guard outside of his room as the two made love. But one day he fell asleep during watch duty and Helios discovered them the next morning. The sun-god then informed Hephaestus, to the choices of the two, who then created a net to ensnare and then shame them. Furious, Ares punished Alectryon by transforming him into a [[rooster]] which never forgets to announce the rising of the sun in the morning by its crowing, his own way of apologizing to Ares for falling asleep on the job, but this failed to make amends.<ref>[[Ausonius]], [https://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/decimus-magnus-ausonius/ausonius-osu/page-22-ausonius-osu.shtml 26.2.27]</ref><ref name=":lib">[[Libanius]], ''[[Progymnasmata]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=kRi-If9IAOYC&pg=PA31&hl=el&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4 2.26]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gallagher|first=David|url=https://brill.com/view/book/9789042027091/B9789042027091-s006.xml|title=Avian and Serpentine|date=2009-01-01|publisher=Brill Rodopi|isbn=978-90-420-2709-1|language=en}}</ref>

According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the rooster is Helios' sacred animal, always crowing when he is about to rise.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Paus.+5.25.9&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 5.25.9]</ref>