Licymnius

Licymnius, a, um (Λικύμνιος v. Λίκυμνα, der Burg der Stadt Tiryns in Argolis), licymnisch, stagna, Stat. Theb. 4, 734.

Lĭcymnĭus, a, um, de Licymne [v. dʼArgolide] : Stat. Th. 4, 734.

Licymnĭus

(Λικύμνιος). (1) A son of Electryon and the Phrygian slave Midea, and consequently halfbrother of Alcmené. He was married to Perimedé, by whom he became the father of Oeonus, Argeus, and Melas. He was a friend of Heracles, whose son Tlepolemus slew him, according to some unintentionally, and according to others in a fit of anger.

(2) Of Chios, a distinguished dithyrambic poet, of uncertain date. Some writers place him before Simonides; but it is perhaps more likely that he belonged to the later Athenian dithyrambic school about the end of the fourth century B.C.

(3) Of Sicily, a rhetorician, the pupil of Gorgias, and the teacher of Polus.

Licymnius Licymnius, bastard son of Electryon

• Apollod. 2.4.5; Paus. 2.22.8
• brother of Alcmena: Paus. 3.15.4
• survives the slaughter of his brothers: Apollod. 2.4.6
• goes with Amphitryon to Thebes: Apollod. 2.4.6
• marries Perimede: Apollod. 2.4.6
• son of, killed by the Hippocoontids: Apollod. 2.7.2, Apollod. 2.7.3
• father of Argius and Melas: Apollod. 2.7.7
• killed by Tlepolemus: Apollod. 2.8.2; Paus. 2.22.8