The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/; Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical myth and history: * Alcon, a son of Hippocoon, and one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar. He was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta. * Alcon, a son of Erechtheus, king of Athens, and father of Phalerus the Argonaut. Gaius Valerius Flaccus represents him as such a skillful archer that once, when a serpent had entwined his son, he shot the serpent without hurting his child. Virgil mentions an Alcon, whom Servius calls a Cretan, and of whom he relates almost the same story as that which Valerius Flaccus ascribes to Alcon, the son of Erechtheus. * Alcon the Molossian (6th century BC) suitor of Agariste of Sicyon. * Alcon, a surgeon (vulnerum