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Lycus (/ ˈ l aɪ k ə s / LY-kəs; Ancient Greek: Λύκος, romanized: Lúkos, lit. 'wolf') is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology: Lycus, one of the Telchines [1] who fought under Dionysus in his Indian campaign. [2] He is otherwise said to have erected a temple to Apollo Lycius on the banks of Xanthus river. [3]
In Greek mythology, Lycus or Lykos (/ ˈ l aɪ k ə s / LY-kəs; Ancient Greek: Λύκος, romanized: Lúkos, lit. 'wolf') was a ruler of the ancient city of Ancient Thebes (Boeotia). His rule was preceded by the regency of Nycteus and in turn, Lycus was succeeded by the twins Amphion and Zethus.
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. [5]
Lycus (Lykos, Lycos, Ancient Greek: Λύκος, lit. 'wolf') may refer to: Mythology. Lycus (mythology), the name of numerous people in Greek mythology, including
Zeus turning Lycaon into a wolf; engraving by Hendrik Goltzius.. In Greek mythology, Lycaon (/laɪˈkeɪɒn/; Attic Greek: Λυκάων, romanized: Lukáōn, Attic Greek: [ly.kǎː.ɔːn]) was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing to recognize human flesh.
The reason for this, according to Greek mythology, was that an Athenian aristocrat named Lykos (Lycus) and his followers settled in trm̃mis, after being exiled from Athens. The land was known to the Greeks as Lukia (later Lykia ; Latin Lycia ) and its inhabitants were referred to as Lukiae (later Lykiae ; Latin Lyciani ).
Lycus or Lykos (/ ˈ l aɪ k ə s / LY-kəs; Ancient Greek: Λύκος, romanized: Lúkos, lit. 'wolf'), in Greek mythology , was a king of Libya and son of the god Ares [ 1 ] and the father of Callirhoê .
A sanctuary of Pan was also located upon the mountain. [19] According to tradition, Evander of Pallantium, son of Hermes, led a colony from Pallantion in Arkadia into Italy, where he built a town Pallantion on the Palatine, and introduced the cult of Pan Lýkaios and the festival of the Lykaia, which later became the major Roman festival of Lupercalia.