Greek mythology - of the same name
In Greek mythology, the name Caucon (; Ancient Greek: Καύκων) may refer to:
- Caucon, 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.[3] He was an ancestral hero and eponym of the Caucones that were believed to have settled in Triphylia.[4] His tomb was shown at Lepreus,[5] with a statue of a man with a lyre standing over it.[6] Other traditions made him son of Poseidon and father of Lepreus by Astydameia.[7] Caucon and his brothers 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. Caucon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[8]
- Caucon, son of Celaenus and grandson of the autochthon Phlyus, from Eleusis. He was said to have brought the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis to Andania in Messene.[9] Legend had it that he appeared to Epaminondas in a dream, prophesying him success in restoration of the Messenian state;[10] the Messenian allies of Epaminondas offered sacrifices to Caucon.[11]
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
- ^ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 3.366
- ^ Strabo, 8.3.16 remarking that Caucon might have been the progenitor of the tribe, or might have had the same name by coincidence
- ^ Pausanias, 5.5.5
- ^ Athenaeus, 10.412b; Aelian, Varia Historia 1.24
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Pausanias, 4.1.5 & 4.2.6
- ^ Pausanias, 2.4.6–8
- ^ Pausanias, 4.27.6