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Alektryon is a figure in Greek mythology.

By the Peloponnesian War a location on a small island south of Naxos Island was named after him. Though apparently a fishermen's hut, by the time the Spartan misthios Kassandra reached it, the humans laid dead, and the place had become a den of chickens, led by a rooster.^[1]

ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών (alektruṓn) is the Greek word meaning 'chicken, rooster'.
In Greek mythology, Alektryon was a soldier charged by the god Ares to stand guard while Ares and the goddess Aphrodite had a dalliance. Alektryon however fell asleep, and thus failed to notify the couple of the approaching Helios in time. As a punishment, Ares turned Alektryon into a rooster to henceforth always announce the rising of the sun (Helios).
It is possible to run into a mercenary called Alektryon the Rooster in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, who is accompanied by a chicken/rooster.

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 *[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἀλεκτρυών ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών] (''alektruṓn'') is the Greek word meaning 'chicken, rooster'.
-*In Greek mythology, Alektryon was a soldier charged by the god [[Ares]] to stand guard while Ares and the goddess [[Aphrodite]] had a dalliance. Alektryon however fell asleep, and thus failed to notify the couple of the approaching [[Helios]] in time. As a punishment, Ares turned Alektryon into a rooster.
+*In Greek mythology, Alektryon was a soldier charged by the god [[Ares]] to stand guard while Ares and the goddess [[Aphrodite]] had a dalliance. Alektryon however fell asleep, and thus failed to notify the couple of the approaching [[Helios]] in time. As a punishment, Ares turned Alektryon into a rooster to henceforth always announce the rising of the sun (Helios).
 *It is possible to run into a mercenary called [[Alektryon the Rooster]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Odyssey]]'', who is accompanied by a chicken/rooster.