Lykos (son of Prometheus)

Lykos ( Greek  Λύκος ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is the son of Prometheus with Kelaino and brother of Chimaireus .

Like his brother, Lycus was buried in Troy . During a plague in Sparta , an oracle instructed a noble Lacedaemonian to make a sacrifice on the graves of the brothers to end the plague. Menelaus then traveled to Troy, made the sacrifices and during this time he was the hospitality of Paris - a hospitality that was to spark the Trojan War .

literature

• Wilhelm Drexler : Lykos 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, column 2184 ( digitized ).