Leocritus
(Λεώκριτος), a son of Evenor, and one of the suitors of Penelope, was slain by Telemachus. (Hom. Od. 2.242, &c., 22.294.) [L.S]
(Λεώκριτος).
1. A son of Polydamas, was slain by Odysseus. He was represented as dead in a painting in the λέσχη at Delphi. (Paus. 10.27.)
2. An Athenian, son of Protarchus, distinguished himself greatly in the storming of the Museum at Athens, under Olympiodorus, when the Athenians threw off the yoke of Demetrius Poliorcetes and drove out his garrison, B. C. 287. Leocritus was the first to break into the place, and was slain in the struggle. His memory was held in high honour by the Athenians, and his shield was suspended in the temple of Zeus ἐλευθέριος, with his name and his exploit inscribed upon it. (Paus. 1.25, 26; Plut. Demetr. 46.)
3. A general of Pharnaces, king of Pontus, in his war with Eumenes II. of Pergamus, was sent by his master to invade Galatia in B. C. 181. (Pol. 25.4.) On one occasion the garrison of Tium or Teium, a town in Paphlagonia, surrendered to him on a promise of safety, in spite of which he treacherously put the whole of it to death. (Diod. Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 576; comp. Pol. 26.6.)
4. A Pythagorean philosopher of Carthage. (Iambl. Vit. Pyth. ad fin.) [E.E]
- son of Protarchus, slain in storming Museum hill: Paus. 1.26.2
- slain by Odysseus: Paus. 10.27.1