Lycaethus

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. He came from Same and was ultimately killed by Odysseus during the fight between the latter and the suitors.[5]

Notes

1. Scholia on Euripides, Medea 20
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.5
3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.14.6 & 3.15.1
4. Hyginus, Fabulae 173
5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.7.26 ff & 7.33

References

• 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.
• 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.