Lykomedes (King of Skyros)
Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes on a Roman sarcophagus , ca 240 AD
Lykomedes ( Greek Λυκομήδης , Latin Lycomedes) is king of Skyros and the murderer of Theseus in Greek mythology . Achilles grew up among his daughters . Thetis had asked Lykomedes to raise Achilles, disguised as a girl, among his daughters. Achilles fathered one of the daughters, Deidameia , the Neoptolemus . Lykomedes threw Theseus off a cliff when he showed him the lands he had promised Theseus, although they were no longer in his possession.
literature
- Paul Weizsäcker : Lykomedes 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2178-2180 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Lykomedes - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Lykomedes in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 13, 8.
- ↑ Plutarch : Theseus 35, 3-4.