Lycus (mythology)

Lycus or Lykos (Greek: Λύκος "wolf") is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology:
* Lycus (son of Ares), a Libyan king who sacrificed strangers to his father. He was the father of Callirhoê, who rescued Diomedes from being sacrificed, and committed suicide upon his departure.Pseudo-Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, 23
* Lycus (brother of Nycteus), a son of Hyrieus and Clonia. He became the guardian of Labdacus and Laius. Nycteus, unable to retrieve his daughter Antiope from Epopeus of Sicyon, sent his brother Lycus to take her. He invaded Sicyon, killed Epopeus and gave Antiope as a slave to his own wife, Dirce.Bibliotheca 3. 5. 5 & 3. 10. 1; Hyginus, Fabulae, 7 - 8
* Lycus (descendant of Lycus), a descendant of the above, said to have usurped the power over Thebes.Euripides, Heracles; Hyginus, Fabulae, 31; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 38
* Lycus, son of Poseidon and Celaeno, brother of Eurypylus. The two brothers ruled over the Fortunate Islands.Bibliotheca 3. 10. 1
* Lycus, son of Poseidon and Alcyone.
* Lycus, son of Prometheus and Celaeno, brother of Chimaerus. The brothers are said to have had tombs in the Troad; they are otherwise unknown.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 132
* Lycus, one of the four sons of Pandion II and Pylia. Upon the death of Pandion, Lycus and his brothers (Aegeus, Nisus, and Pallas) took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion. They divided the government in four but Aegeas became king.Bibliotheca 3. 15. 5 - 6 According to Herodotus (1.173) he gave his name to Lycia in Asia Minor, hitherto known as Tremilis/Termilae.Herodotus, Histories, 1. 173 & 7. 92, also referenced by Strabo, 12. 8. 5 Pausanias reports that after getting driven out of Athens, Lycus came to Aphareus and introduced him and his family to the rites of the Great Goddess.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4. 2. 6 "The Lykos tradition is probably a pseudo-myth of no great antiquity, as the German scholar Treuber claimed on the grounds that there is no evidence of a family tree in Athenian genealogy; Treuber suggests that political motives may have helped to foster the tradition", reported T. R. Bryce.Bryce, T. R. "The Arrival of the Goddess Leto in Lycia" Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 32.1 (1983:1-13) p. 4.
* Lycus, son of Dascylus of Mysia or Mariandyne. He was hospitable towards the ArgonautsBibliotheca 1. 9. 23; Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 776; Hyginus, Fabulae, 18 and Heracles, who conquered the land of the Bebryces (Heraclea Pontica).Bibliotheca 2. 5. 9 He is apparently identical with the Lycus given as a son of Titias, brother of Priolaus and eponym of a city.Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 780
* Lycus, a son of Aegyptus who married and was murdered by the Danaid Agave.Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
* Lycus, a defender of Thebes against the Seven.Statius, Thebaid, 9. 107
* Lycus, a lost companion of AeneasVirgil, Aeneid, 1. 122
* Lycus, another companion of Aeneas, killed by Turnus.Virgil, Aeneid, 9. 544 & 559
* Lycus, one of the companions of Diomedes that were changed into birds in ItalyOvid, Metamorphoses, 14. 504
* Lycus, a Thracian killed by Cycnus in single combat.Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 27. 6
* Lycus, a centaur at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, was killed by Pirithous.Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 332
* Lycus, a satyr son of Hermes and Iphthime, brother of Pherespondus and Pronomus.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 14. 106 ff
* Lycus, one of the Telchines who fought under Dionysus in his Indian campaign.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 14. 36 ff He is otherwise said to have erected a temple to Apollo Lycius on the banks of the Xanthus river.Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 56. 1
* Lycus, son of Arrhetus and Laobie, who, together with his father and brothers, fought under Deriades against Dionysus.Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 26. 250 ff
* Lycus and Termerus were two notorious brigands in Caria.Scholia on Euripides, Rhesus, 509
* Lycus and Pernis are listed by HyginusHyginus, Fabulae, 97 as parents of Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, who are otherwise known as sons of Ares and Astyoche.
* Lycus, same as Lycurgus of Nemea.
* Lycus, an alternate name for Ischys.
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