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Lycon

Λύκων

(Λύκων), the name of two mythical personages, one, a son of Hippocoon, was killed by Heracles (Apollod. 3.10.5; HIPPOCOON), and the other a Trojan. (Hom. Il. 16.335.)

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.