Caucon

In Greek mythology, the name Caucon (/ˈkɔːkən, ˈkɔːkɒn/; Ancient Greek: Καύκων) may refer to:

• Caucon of Arcadia, a son of Lycaon,[1][2] ancestral hero and eponym of the Caucones that were believed to have settled in Triphylia.[3] His tomb was shown at Lepreus,[4] with a statue of a man with a lyre standing over it.[5] Other traditions made him son of Poseidon and father of Lepreus by Astydameia.[6][7]
• Caucon, son of Celaenus and grandson of the autochthon Phlyus, from Eleusis. He was said to have brought the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis to Andania in Messene.[8] Legend had it that he appeared to Epaminondas in a dream, prophesying him success in restoration of the Messenian state;[9] the Messenian allies of Epaminondas offered sacrifices to Caucon.[10]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1
2. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
3. Scholia on Odyssey, 3. 366
4. Strabo, Geographica 8.3.16, remarking that Caucon might have been the progenitor of the tribe, or might have had the same name by coincidence
5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.5.5
6. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10. 412b
7. Aelian, Varia Historia 1.24
8. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.1.5 & 4.2.6
9. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.4.6-8
10. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 4.27.6

References

• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.
• 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.
• 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.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.