Lykiskos (Aipytide)
Lykiskos ( ancient Greek Λυκίσκος ) was according to Pausanias a Messenian nobleman from the Aipytiden family . After King Euphaes expanded and fortified the city on the Ithome during the First Messenian War, at the bidding of the oracle a virgin from the Aipytid family was required as a sacrifice to the gods. Lot fell on the daughter of Lykiskos. Although the seer Epebolus said that as an adopted child she was not an aipytidin, Lykiskos fled with her to Sparta. The Aipytide Aristodemos therefore voluntarily offered his own daughter as an offering.
The historicity of the literarily embellished events is critically assessed in research and the dates given in Pausanias are considered incorrect and should be set around 40 years later.
source
- Pausanias , travels in Greece 4.9.4-6, 4.10.1
Individual evidence
literature
- Nino Luraghi : The Ancient Messenians: Constructions of Ethnicity and Memory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-85587-7 . P. 96f.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lykiskos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Λυκίσκος (Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Messenian nobleman from the Aipytid family |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 8th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century BC BC or 7th century BC Chr. |