Ancaeus son of Lycurgus

Also known as: Ancaeus · Family: Argonauts · Role: hero · First appears: Book I 2

Life events

• Lycurgus sends Ancaeus son of Lycurgus to join his brothers among the heroes.(Book I 2 · 📍 Arcadia)
  • With: Lycurgus
  • “Ancaeus followed them as the third, whom his father Lycurgus sent, the brother older than both.”

Book I 2

• parent: Lycurgus “whom his father Lycurgus sent”
• siblings with Amphidamas “and Ancaeus followed them as the third, whom his father Lycurgus sent, the brother older than both”
• siblings with Cepheus “and Ancaeus followed them as the third, whom his father Lycurgus sent, the brother older than both”

Book II 1

• parent: Lycurgus “Then Ancaeus, the dauntless son of Lycurgus, quickly seized his huge axe,”
• friends with Jason “Then Ancaeus, the dauntless son of Lycurgus, quickly seized his huge axe, and in his left hand holding a bear’s dark hide, plunged into the midst of the Bebrycians with furious onset; and with him charged the sons of Aeacus, and with them started warlike Jason.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.