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Lyctus

Λύκτος

(Λύκτος), a son of Lycaon, and the mythical founder of the ancient town of Lyctos in Crete. (Hom. Il. 2.647; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 313; Steph. Byz. s. v.)

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.