Licymnius
In
Argolid (which makes him half-brother of Alcmene, mother of Heracles). His mother is given as Mideia, a Phrygian woman.[1][2] One source mentions Alco (Ἀλκώ) as his sister.[3]
Mythology
Licymnius was the only one of Electryon's sons to return home after the unsuccessful war against the
Thebes
.
According to one story, found in the Iliad, he was accidentally killed in his old age by Heracles' son Tlepolemus, when the latter was beating his servant with a stick and Licymnius ran in between (or else Tlepolemus and Licymnius had a quarrel over a certain matter).[8][9][10][11] Pausanias mentions his tomb in Argos.[12]
Notes
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.5
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.15.4
- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 11 (10), 76
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.6
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.7
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.3
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Odes 10.65 ff
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.663
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.8.2
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.58.7
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 7.29
- ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.22.8
References
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- 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.
- Pindar, Odes translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pindar, The Odes of Pindar including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
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