Nycteus

Family: Theban · Role: father of Nycteis and Antiope · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Nycteus)

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• child: Nycteis “Polydorus, having become king of Thebes , married Nycteis, daughter of Nycteus, son of Chthonius, and begat Labdacus, who perished after Pentheus because he was like-minded with him.”
• child: Antiope “Antiope was a daughter of Nycteus, and Zeus had intercourse with her.”
• siblings with Lycus (The preceding sentence identifies Lycus and Nycteus as the two persons.) “so long as Laius was a child. Both of them had fled [ from Euboea ] because they had killed Phlegyas, son of Ares and Dotis the Boeotian, and they took up their abode at Hyria”
• parent: Chthonius “Polydorus, having become king of Thebes , married Nycteis, daughter of Nycteus, son of Chthonius, and begat Labdacus”
• ward: Lycus “In a fit of despondency Nycteus killed himself, after charging Lycus to punish Epopeus and Antiope.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• child: Callisto “Asius that she was a daughter of Nycteus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Hyrieus “Hyrieus had Nycteus and Lycus by a nymph Clonia”
• parent: Clonia “Hyrieus had Nycteus and Lycus by a nymph Clonia”

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