Bucolion

For the cockroach genus, see Bucolion (cockroach).

Bucolion (Ancient Greek: Βουκολίων, romanized: Boukolíon) may refer to the following:

  • Bucolion, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[1] Nonacris[2] or by unknown woman. He and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Bucolion was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[3]
  • Bucolion, also Boucolides, was eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan king Laomedon and the nymph Calybe.[4] His wife was the naiad Abarbarea, and they had at least two sons, Aesepus and Pedasus. Aesepus and Pedasus participated in the Trojan War.[5] According to Tzetzes, Bucolion and Abarbarea were the parents of the Trojan hero Euphorbus who was otherwise known as the son of Panthous and Phrontis.[6]
  • Bucolion, an Achaean soldier who fought in the Trojan War. He was slain by the Mysian Eurypylus.[7]
  • Bucolion, king of Arcadia who he succeeded his father Holaeas, son of Cypselus. He was the father of Phialus.[8]
  • Bucolion (Βουκολιών), a place in Arcadia of uncertain site, to which the Mantineans retreated, when they were defeated by the Tegeatae in 423 BC during the Peloponnesian War.[9][10]
  1. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  2. ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
  3. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.3
  5. ^ Homer, Iliad 6.22 ff.
  6. ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.8, p. 229 & 13.37, p. 575
  7. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.615
  8. ^ Pausanias, 8.5.7
  9. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 4.134
  10. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Bucolion