Lyciscus

Family: Messenian · First appears: Book 4 · Chapter 9

Life events

Epebolus reveals that Lyciscus’s daughter is not biologically his and therefore cannot be sacrificed.(Book 4 · Chapter 9)
- With: Epebolus
- “Epebolus the seer said it would not do to sacrifice her; for she was not really the daughter of Lyciscus”
Lyciscus takes the girl and flees to Sparta.(Book 4 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Sparta)
- “Lyciscus took off the girl and fled to Sparta.”
Lyciscus’s daughter dies while living with him as a resident alien at Sparta.(Book 4 · Chapter 12)
- “As Lyciscus lived as a resident alien at Sparta his daughter, whom he had taken with him in his flight from Messene, chanced to die.”
Arcadian cavalry capture Lyciscus and bring him before the assembly at Ithome.(Book 4 · Chapter 12 · 📍 Ithome)
- “And as he often went to visit his daughter’s grave, some Arcadian cavalry lay in wait for him and carried him off. And he was taken to Ithome, and being brought before the assembly he made his defence;”
The priestess of Hera reveals that Lyciscus’s supposed daughter was actually her own child.(Book 4 · Chapter 12 · 📍 the theatre)
- With: the priestess of Hera
- “And she confessed that the child was hers, and that she had given it to the wife of Lyciscus to palm off as her own.”

with Epebolus (Epebolus exposed Lyciscus's claimed paternity of the girl.) “And when the lot fell upon the daughter of Lyciscus, Epebolus the seer said it would not do to sacrifice her; for she was not really the daughter of Lyciscus, but a girl that the wife of Lyciscus being barren had palmed off as hers.”

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