Lycus

Character · slug: lycus

Stories (11)

Madness of Heracles: Murder of Wife and Children (Euripidean, after the Labors)
Heroes — Heracles · Attic tragic — Euripides (madness *after* return from the labors; Lycus episode; Megara slain; Theseus as comforter)
Ninth Labor: Hippolyte’s Belt (Hera’s Rumor and the Death of the Queen)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean (Admete’s desire; Hippolyte first willing; Hera as Amazon spreads rumor; Heracles kills Hippolyte and takes the belt of Ares)
Amphion and Zethus: The Walls of Thebes
Theban · Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* Antiope) / Pausanian
Antiope: Zeus, Lycus, and Dirce (Euripides / Apollodorus)
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus prelude · Euripidean (*Antiope* fragments) / Apollodorean / Homeric (*Odyssey* 11)
Dirce and the Bull
Heroes — Theban / Amphion–Zethus · Apollodorean / Euripidean / Pausanian (bull-death; spring aetiology; Farnese motif in art)
Nycteus and Lycus: Theban Usurpation Setup
Heroes — Theban political prelude (pre-Amphionid) · Apollodorean / Pausanian genealogical politics
Labdacus and Laius: Lineage Bridge to the Labdacids
Heroes — Theban / Labdacid genealogy · Apollodorean / Pausanian (thin reigns; exile of Laius; restoration after Amphionids)
Opheltes (Archemorus): Death at Nemea and the Nemean Games
Heroes — Theban / Nemean aetiology · Apollodorean / tragic / Pausanian
Hypsipyle at Nemea: Exile, Nurse, and Rescue
Heroes — Lemnian / Nemean / Seven Against Thebes · Euripidean (*Hypsipyle*) / Apollodorean
Tiphys Dies; Ancaeus Takes the Helm
Heroes — Argonautica / voyage logistics · Apollonian — death of the first helmsman; Ancaeus succeeds
Artemis Orthia at Sparta (Pausanias)
Local and lesser — Spartan cult / Orthia aetiology · Pausanian / classical — wooden image from Astarte-land; madness; scourging altar

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Lycus

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