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• Lycus (brother of Nycteus) — In Greek Mythology, Lycus was a ruler of the ancient city of Thebes, Greece. His rule was preceded by the regency of Nycteus, and he was succeeded by the twins Amphion and Zethus. GenealogyLycus and his brother Nycteus were the sons of either… …   Wikipedia

• Labdacus — In Greek mythology, Labdacus (Λάβδακος) was the only son of Polydorus and a king of Thebes. Labdacus was a grandson of Thebes founder, Cadmus. His mother was Nycteis, daughter of Nycteus. Polydorus died while Labdacus was a young child, leaving… …   Wikipedia

• Polydorus (son of Cadmus) — The only son of Cadmus and Harmonia, Polydorus was a king of Thebes, Greece. Upon his father s death, Pentheus, the son of his sister Agave and Echion, one of the Spartoi, ruled Thebes. Pentheus, however, ruled only for a short time, before… …   Wikipedia

• Polydorus — In Greek mythology, Polydorus referred to several different people.#An Argive, son of Hippomedon. Pausanias lists him as one of the Epigoni, who attacked Thebes in retaliation for the deaths of their fathers, the Seven Against Thebes, who died… …   Wikipedia

• Theban kings in Greek mythology — The dynastic history of Thebes in Greek mythology is crowded with a bewildering number of kings between the city s new foundation (by Cadmus) and the Trojan War (see Ogyges). This suggests several competing traditions, which mythographers were… …   Wikipedia

• Lycus (mythology) — Lycus or Lykos is the name of several people in Greek mythology:* Lycus (son of Ares), a Libyan king in Greek mythology who sacrificed strangers to his father. He was the father of Callirhoê, who was a lover of Diomedes. * Lycus (brother of… …   Wikipedia

• Epopeus — (Ἐποπεύς) was a mythical Greek king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird name that linked him to epops (έποψ), the hoopoe, the watcher . [ Now the long list of Sicyonian kings which we find in Pausanias touches on bird lore at more than one juncture …   Wikipedia

• Antiope (mother of Amphion) — In Greek mythology, Antiope (IPA| [æn ˈtaɪ o pe] ) was the name of the daughter of the Boeotian river god Asopus, according to Homer; [Homer, Odyssey . xi. 260] in later poems she is called the daughter of the nocturnal king Nycteus of Thebes or …   Wikipedia

• Poseidon — This article is about the Greek god. For other uses, see Poseidon (disambiguation). Poseidon …   Wikipedia

• Oedipus — For other uses, see Oedipus (disambiguation). Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, c. 1805 Topics in Greek mythology …   Wikipedia

• Necklace of Harmonia — The Necklace of Harmonia was a fabled object in Greek mythology that, according to legend, brought great misfortune to all of its wearers or owners, who were primarily queens and princesses of the ill fated House of Thebes. It could loosely be… …   Wikipedia