Polyctor
2. A son of Pterelaus, prince of Ithaca. A place in Ithaca, Polyctorium, was believed to have derived its name from him. (Hom. Od. 17.207; Eustath. ad Honm. p. 1815.)
There is one more mythical personage of this name. (Hom. Od. 18.298.)
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.