Lycus
4. A tyrant of Thebes, is likewise called by some a son of Poseidon, though Euripides (Here. ur. 31) calls him a son of Lycus (No. 2), but akes him come to Thebes from Euboea. In the a bsence of Heracles, L cus had attempted to destroy Megara and her children by Heracles, and killed Creon, king of Thebes, but on the return of Heracles he was killed by him. (Hyg. Fab. 32; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 38.)
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.