Lycophron

Family: Corinthian · Role: son of Periander and Melissa · First appears: Book 3 · §42–50

Life events

• Procles told Lycophron that Periander had killed his mother, and Lycophron thereafter regarded his father as her murderer.(Book 3 · §42–50 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Periander Procles
  • “Of this saying the elder of them took no account, but the younger, whose name was Lycophron, was grieved so greatly at hearing it, that when he reached Corinth again he would neither address his father, nor speak to him when his father would have conversed with him, nor give any reply when he asked questions, regarding him as the murderer of his mother.”
• Periander drove Lycophron out of his house.(Book 3 · §42–50 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Periander
  • “At length Periander being enraged with his son drove him forth out of his house.”
• Periander drove Lycophron from his home and barred others from receiving or speaking with him.(Book 3 · §51–57)
  • With: Periander
  • “sent a messenger to those with whom the son who had been driven forth was living at that time, and forbade them to receive him into their houses”
• Periander sent Lycophron away to Corcyra.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Corcyra)
  • With: Periander
  • “despatched a ship to Corcyra, and so sent him away out of his sight”
• Periander summoned Lycophron from Corcyra to return and take supreme power.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Corcyra)
  • With: Periander
  • “he sent to Corcyra and summoned Lycophron to come back and take the supreme power”
• Lycophron refused to return to Corinth while his father was alive.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Corinth)
  • “he would never come to Corinth so long as he heard that his father was yet alive.”
• Lycophron agreed to return to Corinth as Periander's successor.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Periander
  • “The son having agreed to return on these terms, Periander was preparing to sail to Corcyra and his son to Corinth”
• The Corcyreans put Lycophron to death.(Book 3 · §51–57 · 📍 Corcyra)
  • “the Corcyreans, having learnt all that had taken place, put the young man to death”

Book 3 · §42–50

• parent: Periander (Lycophron is named as the younger of Periander and Melissa's sons in the following sentence.) “He had by Melissa two sons, the one of seventeen and the other of eighteen years.”
• parent: Melissa (Lycophron is named as the younger of Periander and Melissa's sons in the following sentence.) “He had by Melissa two sons, the one of seventeen and the other of eighteen years.”
• elder kin: Procles “These sons their mother's father Procles, who was despot of Epidauros, sent for to himself and kindly entertained, as was to be expected seeing that they were the sons of his own daughter;”
• with Periander (Periander expelled Lycophron from his house.) “At length Periander being enraged with his son drove him forth out of his house.”

Book 3 · §51–57

• parent: Periander (The passage calls Lycophron Periander's son earlier in the chapter.) “for he was ruler also of that island; and having sent him away, Periander proceeded to make war against his father-in-law Procles, esteeming him most to blame for the condition in which he was; and he took Epidauros and took also Procles himself and made him a prisoner.”

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