Lycurgus

A son of Pheres and Periclymene, a brother of Admetus, was king of the country about Nemea, and married to Eurydice or Amphithea, by whom he became the father of Opheltes.1 His tomb was believed to exist in the grove of the Nemean Zeus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.14; iii, 6.4.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 15.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.