Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Candaon is a rare name of uncertain meaning. In the Alexandra of Lycophron a long and obscure poem there is a reference to a human sacrifice conducted with the three-fathered sword of Candaon. The scholia to Lycophron explain this as a transferred epithet: Candaon is Orion who was begotten in a curious manner by Zeus Hermes and Poseidon.It is not clear from the context whether the sacrifice is that of Polyxena by Neoptolemus or that of Iphigeneia by Agamemnon.