Hippocoon
Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.7
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Hippocoön)
As king in Lacedaemon, Hippocoon had twelve sons: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon. With their help, he expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon.
Later, Hercules killed Hippocoon and his sons and subjugated the city. Icarius and Tyndareus returned, and Tyndareus succeeded to the kingdom: “Having killed Hippocoon and his sons and subjugated the city, Hercules restored Tyndareus and entrusted the kingdom to him.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Hercules killed Hippocoon and his sons, subjugated Lacedaemon, and restored Tyndareus as king.(Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
- Hercules killed Hippocoon and his sons, allowing Icarius and Tyndareus to return.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
Apollodorus, Library 2.7
- enemies with Heracles “Having killed Hippocoon and his sons and subjugated the city, Hercules restored Tyndareus and entrusted the kingdom to him.”
Apollodorus, Library 3.10
- enemies with Icarius “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon.”
- enemies with Tyndareus “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon.”
- child: Dorycleus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Scaeus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Enarophorus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Eutiches “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Bucolus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Lycaethus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Tebrus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Hippothous “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Eurytus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Hippocorystes “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Alcinus “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- child: Alcon “Now Hippocoon had sons, to wit: Dorycleus, Scaeus, Enarophorus, Eutiches, Bucolus, Lycaethus, Tebrus, Hippothous, Eurytus, Hippocorystes, Alcinus, and Alcon.”
- with Icarius (Hippocoon and his sons expelled Icarius.) “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon .”
- with Tyndareus (Hippocoon and his sons expelled Tyndareus.) “With the help of these sons Hippocoon expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon .”
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