Glycon
Γλύκων
(Γλύκων).
1. A lyric poet, from whom the Glyconean metre took its name. Nothing remains of him but three lines, which are quoted by Hephaestion in illustration of the metre. (Ench. p.33.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.