Alector (; Ancient Greek: Ἀλέκτωρ) refers to more than one person in classical mythology and history:
*Alector, son of Magnes (mythology), Magnes and Meliboea, eponyms of Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia and the town of Meliboea respectively.
*Alector, the Boeotia, Boeotian father of Leitus. Homer calls him "Alectryon (mythology), Alectryon", and Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus "Electryon", naming him among the sons of Itonus. According to John Tzetzes, Tzetzes, Alector was also the father of Clonius, Arcesilaus (mythology), Arcesilaus and Prothoenor (his nephews according to Diodorus) by different mothers: he is said to have fathered Leitus with Polybule, Arcesilaus with Cleobule, Prothoenor with Arteis, and Clonius with Acteis.
*Alector, an Ancient Elis, Elean prince as the son of King Epeius, and brother of Hyrmine. He was allied with Phorbas of Elis, Phorbas of Thessaly. By the latter's daughter Diogeneia, he became father of Amarynceus.
*Alector, the Argos, Peloponnese, Argive son of Anaxagoras (mythology), Anaxagoras and father of King Iphis of Argos.
*Alector of Sparta, son of Argeus (Greek myth), Argeus (son of Pelops) and Hegesandra, daughter of King Amyclas of Sparta, Amyclas. He has two brothers, Melanion (mythology), Melanion and Boethoos. Alector was the father of Iphiloche (or Echemela), who married Megapenthes (son of Menelaus), Megapenthes, son of Menelaus.
[Homer, ''Odyssey'' 4.10 with scholia]
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* 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.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
*Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica, 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 4.59–8
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
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
* Homer, Iliad, ''The Iliad'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920
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* Homer, Odyssey, ''The Odyssey'' with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919
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* 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.
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*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
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*John Tzetzes, Tzetzes, John, ''Allegories of the Iliad'' translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015.
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