Author(s):
Scherf, Johannes (Tübingen)
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Bendlin, Andreas (Erfurt)
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Touwaide, Alain (Madrid)
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Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich)
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Meister, Klaus (Berlin)
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Et al.
(Λύκος;
Lýkos). Mythology and religion: L. [1-9], historical persons: L. [10-13], rivers: L. [14-19]. [German version] [1] Son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno Son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Celaeno [1] (Ps.-Eratosth. Katasterismoi 23), only Apollod. 3,111 mentions his translation to the Islands of the Blessed, possibly to differentiate him from L. [6], with whom he is connected by Hyg. Fab. 31, 76 and 157 in spite of the descent from Poseidon. Scherf, Johannes (Tübingen) [German version] [2] Son of Prometheus and Celaeno Son of Prometheus and Celaeno [1], on whose tomb in the Troad Menelaus made a sacrifice to liberate Sparta from a plague (schol. Lycoph. 132, schol. Hom. Il. 5,64 Pea). Scherf, Johannes (Tübingen) [German version] [3] Telchine Telchines, who built a temple to the Lycian Apollo on the Xanthus (Diod. Sic. 5,56,1). Companion of Dionysus on his journey to India (Nonnus, Dion. 14,39; 23, 153; 36,417 and 39,12). Scherf, Johannes (Tübingen) [German version] [4] Libyan king Libyan king who wanted to sacrifice Diomedes [1] to his father Ares, which his daughter Callirhoe prevented (Ps.-Plut. Mor. 311bc = Juba FGrH 275 F 5). Thematically a reproduction of the story of Theseus and Ariadne. Scherf, Johannes (Tübingen) [German version] [5] King of the Mariandyni King of the Mariandyni, son of Dascylus [1] (Apollod. 2,100, Apoll. Rhod. 2,776) who extends a warm welcome to the Argonauts because they killed his archenemy Amycus through Polydeuces (Apoll. Rhod. 2,75…