Lykabas (pirate)
Lykabas ( ancient Greek Λυκάβας ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
Since he had to leave his Tuscan homeland because of a murder, he hired on a Tyrrhenian pirate ship under the leadership of the helmsman Akoites . On board he developed into one of the wildest of the pirates, who abused even Akoites, choked and threatened to throw him overboard. After the team on Chios kidnapped the sleeping and still boyish Dionysus , they promised the unrecognized god to take him to Naxos - a promise that they did not intend to keep. Then Dionysus revealed himself, wrapped the ship and oar with ivy and turned the crew, including the Lykabas, into dolphins. Only Akoites was spared because he did not participate in the crime against the god.
literature
- Adolf Schirmer : Lykabas 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2165 ( digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Lykabas 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 804.
Remarks
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphosen 3, 559-692, esp. 624, 673; Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 134.