Nyctimus

Role: youngest son · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.8

Life events

• Zeus blasted Lycaon and his sons with thunderbolts, sparing only Nyctimus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8 · 📍 Trapezus)
  • With: Zeus Lycaon
  • “But Zeus in disgust upset the table at the place which is still called Trapezus , and blasted Lycaon and his sons by thunderbolts, all but Nyctimus, the youngest;”
• Nyctimus succeeded Lycaon to the kingdom.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8)
  • “But when Nyctimus succeeded to the kingdom, there occurred the flood in the age of Deucalion;”
• A flood occurred in the age of Deucalion, possibly because of Lycaon's sons' impiety.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8)
  • “there occurred the flood in the age of Deucalion; some said that it was occasioned by the impiety of Lycaon's sons.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• parent: Lycaon “fifty sons, to wit: Melaeneus, Thesprotus, Helix, Nyctimus”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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