- mythology, the name
Polycaon (/pəˈlɪkiən/;
Ancient Gr****: Πολυκάων
means "much-burning") may
refer to the
following individuals:
Polycaon, son of Lelex, king...
-
Polycaon is a
genus of
horned powder-post
beetles in the
family Bostrichidae.
There are at
least four
described species in
Polycaon.
Beetles in this genus...
-
Polycaon stoutii, the
black polycaon or Stout's
branch borer, is a
species of
woodboring beetle in the
Bostrichidae family. It is
found in
North America...
- alternately,
daughter of
Phorbas and
sister of Triopas). She was
married to
Polycaon, son of king Lelex, of Laconia.
Messene was said to have been very ambitious...
- 1938 (preocc., repl. name)
Papilio hibisci Fabricius, 1938 (repl. name)
Papilio androgeos Papilio piranthus Cramer, 1779
Papilio polycaon Cramer, 1779...
- the King
Lelex and
possibly the
naiad Queen Cleocharia, and
brother of
Polycaon.
Myles was the
father of
Eurotas who
begotten Sparta after whom the city...
- the
father of
several sons,
including Eurotas, and
possibly Myles and
Polycaon. Some
called his wife
Peridia and
their children were Myles, Polyclon,...
- interchangeably. In some accounts, Lelex's two
children were
Myles and
Polycaon possibly by Cleocharia. In this account,
Myles was the
father of Eurotas...
-
Eurotas River,
Laconia queen consort of King
Lelex and
mother of
Myles and
Polycaon Deino Spercheus River,
Malis wife of the
river god
Spercheios and by him...
-
native Sicilian king. He was the
father of Eryx by Aphrodite, and also of
Polycaon. Butes, a Thracian, Boreas's son, who was
hostile towards his stepbrother...
