Lycomedes (mythology)

Name of multiple characters in Greek mythology

For other uses, see Lycomedes (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Lycomedes (/ˌlaɪkəˈmiːdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Λυκομήδης) may refer to several characters:

* Lycomedes, a king of Scyros and father of Deidamia, mother of Neoptolemus by Achilles.[1]
* Lycomedes, a son of Creon, one of the Greek warriors at Troy;[2] he was represented by Polygnotus in the Lesche at Delphi as wounded (supposedly by Agenor) in the wrist, in the arm and in the head.[3]
* Lycomedes, son of Apollo and Parthenope, daughter of King Ancaeus of Samos.[4]
* Lycomedes, a Cretan suitor of Helen.[5]

## Notes

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1. ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.8
2. ^ Homer, Iliad 9.84
3. ^ Pausanias, 10.25.6
4. ^ Pausanias, 7.4.1
5. ^ Hesiod in Scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.240

## References

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* Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
* Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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