Lycurgus (Arcadia)
Lycurgus or Lycurgus ( Greek Λυκοῦργος ) is in Greek mythology, one of Tegea originating Arcadians, son of Aleos and his niece Neaira , brother of the eye , of Cepheus and Ephidamas and King of Nemea in Arcadia . He himself is the father of Iasus and thus the grandfather of Atalante .
When the seven land on Thebes to supply their troops with water, the king's maid, Hypsipyle , leads them to the next spring, but in the process lays Opheltes , the little son of Lycurgus and Eurydice , on the ground, who is then taken by one Snake is bitten. The snake is killed, the boy is buried. But since this is interpreted as a bad omen, the seven heroes introduce the Nemean games in honor of the child . Another son is Ankaios , who falls victim to the Calydonian boar . That is why Echemus , the son of Cepheus and thus nephew of Lycurgus, later took control of Arcadia.
According to another story, Lykurgos kills Areithoos Korynetes , a "club-wielding" warrior from Arcadia.
swell
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3,9,1.
- ↑ Pausanias 8,4,8.
- ↑ Pausanias 8,4,10.
- ↑ Homer , Iliad 7: 132-149.
literature
- Karl Kerényi : The Mythology of the Greeks - The Gods and Human Stories . dtv, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-30030-2 .
- Edzard Visser : Lykurgos 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , Sp. 578 f.
- Robert von Ranke-Graves : Greek Mythology - Sources and Interpretation . rororo, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-55404-6 .
- Michael Grant , John Hazel: Lexicon of ancient myths and figures . dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-32508-9 .