Lykos (consort of Theobules)

Lykos ( Greek  Λύκος ) is a figure in Greek mythology . According to Hyginus , he is the husband of Theobule and father of the Boiot military leaders Prothoënor and Arkesilaos . While Prothoënor fell in battle with Polydamas during the Trojan War , Arkesilaos was killed by Hector .

The rest of the tradition knows Areïlykos or Archilykos as the father of the brother couple .

Remarks

1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97.
2. ↑ Scholion to Homer , Iliad 2, 494.
3. ^ Diodorus 4, 67.

literature

• Wilhelm Drexler : Lykos 16 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2189 ( digitized version ).