Lynkos (mythology)

Lynkos ( Greek Λύγκος, Latin Lyncus) is a mythical king of Scythia . Because of his intention to kill Triptolemos , who wants to cultivate grain and thus spread cultural skills, Demeter , the goddess of grain and agriculture, turns him into a lynx .

literature

• Adolf Schirmer : Lynkos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2209 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 6,649-650; in Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 259 he was king of Sicily .
2. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.655 to 660