Lyceas

Family: Argos · Role: expounder of local usages · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 13

Lyceas, an expounder of local usages, is cited in Book 1, Chapter 13, for what he wrote in his verses about Pyrrhus. In Book 2, Chapter 19, he represents Biton as the man who carried a bull on his shoulders; in Chapter 23, he says that an urn containing Ariadne’s ashes was found when the temple was restored, and that several Argives had seen it.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 13

• with Pyrrhus (son of Æacides) (interaction) “this is also what Lyceas, the expounder of his country’s usages, has written in his verses.”

Book 2 · Chapter 19

• with Biton (Lyceas represented Biton.) “an image of Biton, the man who carried a bull on his shoulders (as Lyceas has represented)”

Book 2 · Chapter 23

• with Ariadne (Lyceas reported the discovery of Ariadne's ashes.) “And Lyceas says that when the temple was restored an earthenware cinerary urn was found that contained the ashes of Ariadne: which he said several Argives had seen.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.