Lycomedes of Scyros

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Depiction of Achilles on Skyros on a panel of an Attic sarcophagus, c. 240 AD. Achilles stands in the middle (without his female disguise), while Lycomedes is the seated figure on the left, and Agamemnon sits on the right.[1]

In

Ancient Greek: Λυκομήδης), also known as Lycurgus, was the most prominent king of the Dolopians in the island of Scyros near Euboea during the Trojan War
.

Family

Lycomedes was the father of seven daughters including

Deidameia, and grandfather of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus.

"Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes" by Pompeo Batoni
, 1745, oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence

Mythology

Death of Theseus

Plutarch says that Lycomedes killed Theseus, who had fled to his island in exile by pushing him off a cliff for he feared that Theseus would dethrone him, as people of the island treated the guest with marked honor. Some related that the cause of this violence was that Lycomedes would not give up the estates which Theseus had in Scyros, or the circumstance that Lycomedes wanted to gain the favour of Menestheus.[2]

Achilles

Main article: Achilles on Skyros

At the request of

Zeugma, Commagene (now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum) depicting Achilles on Skyros disguised as a woman and Odysseus
tricking him into revealing himself

Namesake

The asteroid

Jupiter Trojan, a group of asteroids which are by convention named for characters associated with the Trojan War
.

Notes

  1. ^ LIMC, I.1 p. 57, VI.1 p. 299.
  2. ^ Plutarch, Theseus 35.3; Pausanias, 1.17.6; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 1324.
  3. Apollodorus, 3.13.8
    .

References
  • Media related to Lycomedes at Wikimedia Commons
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