Nyktimos
Nyktimos ( Greek Νύκτιμος ), one of the fifty sons of Lycaon , is a figure in Greek mythology .
After Lykaon, in order to put Zeus to the test, killed the boy Arkas - who had been given to him for care - and brought him to dinner, the father of the gods smashed the house of the wrongdoer with lightning. At the request of Gaia , however, he spared the youngest (in some versions: eldest) son Nyktimos, who then ascended the throne of Arcadia .
In later legends, Nyktimos' brothers, who founded cities in different parts of the country, also survive. But their nefariousness led Zeus to ultimately drown all of humanity in a great flood (with the exception of Deucalion and Pyrrha , as we know).
Orthosia is mentioned as the mother of Nyktimos . His son Peripethes is said to have fathered the Psophis , after which the city of the same name was later named. Last but not least, it is said that the nymph Arkadia gave birth to Nyktimos a daughter named Phylonome .
literature
- Richard Wagner : Nyktimos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 498 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Nyktimos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 206.