Lycomedes

Family: Greek · Role: father of Deidameia · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

Lycomedes was a suitor for Helen in The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, arriving by ship from Crete to seek her hand. In The Cypria, Achilles put in at Scyros and married Lycomedes’ daughter Deidameia.

Relationship record

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• admired: Helen “There came also by ship from Crete to the house of the son of Oebalus strong Lycomedes for rich-haired Helen’s sake.”

The Cypria · Part 1

• child: Deidameia “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.