Dascylus (father)

Also known as: Dascylus · Family: Bebrycians · Role: father of Lycus · First appears: Book II 7

Book II 7

• child: Lycus (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.”
• with Heracles (Heracles acted in support of Dascylus’s rule.) “Together with the Mysians he subdued beneath my father’s sway the Phrygians also, who inhabit the lands next to us, and he made his own the tribes of the Bithynians and their land,”

Also listed in Bebrycians — Minor Figures

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