Thocnus

Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Lycaon · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3

In Book 8, Chapter 3, Thocnus is named among the sons of Lycaon who built Thocnia. He is also one of Nyctimus’s brothers; Nyctimus, the eldest son, succeeded to their father’s power. In Book 8, Chapter 29, Thocnus is said to have built his town on the hill.

Relationship record

Life events

• Thocnus built his town on the hill.(Book 8 · Chapter 29 · 📍 Thocnia)
  • “Thocnus is said to have built his town on the hill.”

Book 8 · Chapter 3

• parent: Lycaon “And Trapezeus and Daseatas and Macareus and Helisson and Thocnus built Thocnia”
• siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”

Book 8 · Chapter 29

• parent: Lycaon (Lycaon is the father of Thocnus.) “Thocnia, which gets its name from Thocnus the son of Lycaon, and is quite deserted in our day.”

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