Labdacus

Family: Thebes · Role: son of Polydorus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 6

Labdacus was the son of Polydorus and was still a child when Nycteus served as his regent. As Nycteus neared death, he appointed his brother Lycus ruler of the Thebans and left him Labdacus’s regency.

Relationship record

Life events

• Nycteus appointed Lycus ruler and transferred Labdacus’s regency to him.(Book 2 · Chapter 6 · 📍 Thebes)
  • With: Nycteus Lycus
  • “Nycteus though very bad they took back to Thebes, and, when he was on the point of death, he gave orders that Lycus his brother should be ruler of the Thebans for the present: for Nycteus himself was Regent for Labdacus, (the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus), who was still a child, and now he left the Regency to Lycus.”

Book 2 · Chapter 6

• guardian: Nycteus “Nycteus himself was Regent for Labdacus, (the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus), who was still a child”
• guardian: Lycus “he gave orders that Lycus his brother should be ruler of the Thebans for the present: for Nycteus himself was Regent for Labdacus”
• parent: Polydorus (son of Cadmus) “Labdacus, (the son of Polydorus, the son of Cadmus)”

Book 9 · Chapter 5

• parent: Polydorus (son of Cadmus) (Parent-to-child direction.) “The son of Polydorus was Labdacus”
• child: Laius (Parent-to-child direction.) “the boy dying also not long after Lycus became guardian for Laius the son of Labdacus”

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