Lycaethus Explained

Lycaethus (Ancient Greek: Λύκαιθος) is a name that refers to the following figures in Greek mythology:

• Lycaethus, father of Creon, king of Corinth,^[1] father of Glauce and Hippotes.
• Lycaethus, a son of King Hippocoon of Sparta, usurper of Tyndareus. He was the brother of Lycon, Alcinous, Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eurytus, Bucolus, Euteiches, Hippothous, Tebrus, Hippocorystes,^[2] Alcimus, Dorceus, Sebrus, Eumedes,^[3] Enaesimus, Alcon and Leucippus.^[4]
• Lycaethus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Same along with other 22 wooers.^[5] He, with the other suitors, was slain by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.^[6]

Notes

1. [Scholia]
2. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
3. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
4. [Hyginus]
5. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.28
6. Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33

References

• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.