Lycomedes

Family: Scyros · Role: king · First appears: Theseus

Life events

Lycomedes killed Theseus by throwing him from a cliff on Scyros.(Theseus · 📍 Scyros)
- With: Theseus
- “But Lycomedes, either jealous of the glory of so great a man, or to gratify Menestheus, having led him up to the highest cliff of the island, on pretense of showing him from thence the lands that he desired, threw him headlong down from the rock, and killed him.”

with Theseus (interaction) “Lycomedes, either jealous of the glory of so great a man, or to gratify Menestheus, having led him up to the highest cliff of the island, on pretense of showing him from thence the lands that he desired, threw him headlong down from the rock, and killed him”
with Theseus (interaction) “But Lycomedes, either jealous of the glory of so great a man, or to gratify Menestheus, having led him up to the highest cliff of the island, on pretense of showing him from thence the lands that he desired, threw him headlong down from the rock, and killed him.”
enemies with Theseus “Lycomedes, either jealous of the glory of so great a man, or to gratify Menestheus, having led him up to the highest cliff of the island, on pretense of showing him from thence the lands that he desired, threw him headlong down from the rock, and killed him.”

enemies with Theseus “the ancient Theseus, the son of Aegeus, when he fled from Athens and took refuge in this isle, was here treacherously slain by king Lycomedes, who feared him”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.