Lycus

Family: Mariandyni · Role: king · First appears: Book II 6

Life events

Lycus and the Mariandyni make a league with the Argonauts after Amycus is slain.(Book II 6)
- With: Jason
- “but for that very deed they even made a league with the heroes”
The Mariandyni welcome Polydeuces as a god after his victory over Amycus.(Book II 6)
- With: Polydeuces
- “And Polydeuces himself they welcomed as a god, flocking from every side”
Lycus sends Dascylus (son) with the Argonauts and gives them many gifts.(Book II 7)
- With: Dascylus (son)
- “But at dawn they hied down to the ship in haste; and with them went Lycus himself, when he had given them countless gifts to bear away; and with them he sent forth his son from his home.”

protégé: Jason (Lycus entertains Jason and the Argonauts as guests.) “And so they went up all together into the city, and all that day with friendly feelings made ready a feast within the palace of Lycus and gladdened their souls with converse. Aeson’s son told him the lineage and name of each of his comrades”
protégé: Polydeuces “And so they went up all together into the city, and all that day with friendly feelings made ready a feast within the palace of Lycus and gladdened their souls with converse. Aeson’s son told him the lineage and name of each of his comrades”

parent: Dascylus (father) (The speaker identifies Dascylus as his father in the preceding sentence.) “when he came hither on foot through the land of Asia bringing the girdle of warlike Hippolyte; and me he found with the down just growing on my cheeks.”
siblings with Priolas “when my brother Priolas was slain by the Mysians—my brother, whom ever since the people lament with most piteous dirges—”
child: Dascylus (son) “So with you all, and in your company, I bid Dascylus my son follow;”
enemies with Amycus “But now the Bebrycians and the insolence of Amycus have robbed me”

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