Character · Individual

Lycaon

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Canonical name: Lycaon
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

son of Priam

Descriptive reference · Disguised

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

Arisbe1 observation

·Remembered

Lycaon is at Arisbe before escaping from it.

See evidence text

“sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped”

Lemnos2 observations

·Remembered

Lycaon is taken to Lemnos and is bought there by the son of Jason.

See evidence text

“sent him by sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him”

·Remembered

Achilles recalls that Lycaon was sold into Lemnos and returned alive.

See evidence text

“this man can come back alive after having been sold over into Lemnos”

palace of Priam1 observation

·Remembered

Lycaon returned to Priam’s house after escaping from Arisbe.

See evidence text

“whence he had escaped and returned to his father’s house”

Xanthus1 observation

·Direct

Lycaon is escaping from the water of Xanthus.

See evidence text

“There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus, as he was escaping out of the water”

tent of Achilles1 observation

·Remembered

Lycaon recalls breaking bread in Achilles’s tent after his capture.

See evidence text

“It was in your tents that I first broke bread on the day when you took me prisoner in the vineyard”

Troy2 observations

·Reported

Lycaon says that he came to Ilius twelve days earlier.

See evidence text

“it is but twelve days that I have come to Ilius after much suffering”

·Direct

Lycaon is in Achilles’s hands before the city of Ilius.

See evidence text

“those whom heaven delivers into my hands before the city of Ilius”

Scamander1 observation

·Direct

Lycaon’s body is cast into Scamander for its eddies to carry downstream.

See evidence text

“Then Achilles caught him by the foot and flung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him the while, and saying, ‘Lie there among the fishes, who will lick the blood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay you on any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear you into the broad bosom of the sea.”

Hades1 observation

·Hypothetical

Priam considers the possibility that Lycaon is already dead and in Hades.

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“even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me. Should they be still alive and in the hands of the Achaeans, we will ransom them with gold and bronze, of which we have store, for the old man Altes endowed his daughter richly; but if they are already dead and in the house of Hades”

Claims

·Direct

Lycaon is Alexandrus’s brother and the owner of the cuirass Alexandrus fits to his body for the duel.

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“the cuirass of his brother Lycaon, and fitted it to his own body”

·Remembered

Pandarus remembers Lycaon repeatedly urging him to take chariots and horses to lead the Trojans.

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“my old father Lycaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him; it would have been much better if I had done so,”

·Direct

Lycaon is unarmed, without helmet, shield, or spear; sweating from his struggle out of the river, his strength is failing.

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“He was unarmed when Achilles caught sight of him, and had neither helmet nor shield; nor yet had he any spear, for he had thrown all his armour from him on to the bank, and was sweating with his struggles to get out of the river, so that his strength was now failing him.”

·Direct

Dazed and desperate to live, Lycaon crouches beneath Achilles’s spear, embraces his knees with one hand, and clutches the spear with the other while supplicating him.

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“Lycaon came up to him dazed and trying hard to embrace his knees, for he would fain live, not die. Achilles thrust at him with his spear, meaning to kill him, but Lycaon ran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby the spear passed over his back, and stuck in the ground, hungering though it was for blood. With one hand he caught Achilles’ knees as he besought him, and with the other he clutched the spear and would not let it go.”

·Reported

Achilles tells Lycaon that he too shall die, dismisses his whining, and contrasts him unfavourably with Patroclus.

See evidence text

“Therefore, my friend, you too shall die. Why should you whine in this way? Patroclus fell, and he was a better man than you are.”

·Direct

Lycaon releases the spear, extends both hands, is struck through the neck by Achilles’s sword, and lies full-length as dark blood soaks the earth.

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“Lycaon’s heart sank within him. He loosed his hold of the spear, and held out both hands before him; but Achilles drew his keen blade, and struck him by the collar-bone on his neck; he plunged his two-edged sword into him to the very hilt, whereon he lay at full length on the ground, with the dark blood welling from him till the earth was soaked.”

·Uncertain

Priam says Lycaon is missing and may still be alive in Achaean hands.

See evidence text

“even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me. Should they be still alive and in the hands of the Achaeans”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“Lycaon”

·Direct

“the cuirass of his brother Lycaon”

·Disguised

“speaking with the voice of Lycaon son of Priam. In his likeness therefore”

·Direct

“There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus”

·Uncertain

“even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus”

·Direct

“Priam’s son Lycaon”