• In Greek mythology, Epopeus (/ɪˈpoʊpiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἐπωπεύς) was the 17th king of Sicyon, with an archaic bird-name that linked him to epops (ἔποψ)...
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  • the name of the following figures: Epopeus, king of Sicyon. Epopeus, king of Lesbos and both father and rapist of Nyctimene. Epopeus, one of the sailors...
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    Corax Epopeus of Sicyon Lamedon Sicyon Polybus of Sicyon (succeeded by Adrastus according to Pausanias) Inachus Phaestus Adrastus Zeuxippus of Sicyon (some...
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    Antiope feared the wrath of her father, Nycteus, and fled to Sicyon, where she married Epopeus. After this she was carried off by Epopeus, who was venerated...
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    Dirce (category Children of Potamoi)
    impregnated Dirce's niece Antiope, the latter fled in shame to King Epopeus of Sicyon, but was brought back by Lycus through force, giving birth to the...
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  • Lycus (mythology) (category Sons of Aegyptus)
    retrieve his daughter Antiope from Epopeus of Sicyon, sent his brother Lycus to take her. He invaded Sicyon, killed Epopeus and gave Antiope as a slave to...
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  • Labdacus. After Antiope was impregnated by Zeus and fled to marry king Epopeus in Sicyon, the Bibliotheca reports that Nycteus killed himself in shame, after...
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  • Bounos (category Kings of Corinth)
    death of Bounus, Epopeus of Sicyon, who had come from Thessaly, extended his own kingdom to include Corinth. Grimal, Pierre (1996). The Dictionary of Classical...
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    of importance. In mythology, its name was derived from an eponymous hero Marathon, who is described by Pausanias as a son of Epopeus, king of Sicyon,...
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  • Marathon (mythology) (category Mythology of Sicyon)
    Marathon, a king of Corinth after succeeding his father King Epopeus of Sicyon and Corinth. His mother was princess Antiope, the Theban daughter of Regent-king...
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  • Aloeus (category Children of Poseidon)
    from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia (Sicyon). He was the father of Epopeus, his successor. Ancient Greece portal Myths portal...
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    sons of Antiope, who fled in shame to Sicyon after Zeus raped her, and married King Epopeus there. However, either Nycteus or Lycus attacked Sicyon in order...
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    Labdacus, the son of Polydorus and Nycteis. During the regency of Nycteus, Thebes (Cadmea) made war against Epopeus, the king of Sicyon, who had abducted...
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  • Lamedon (mythology) (category Mythological kings of Sicyon)
    Lamedon was to succeed him, but the kingdom was seized by Epopeus. However, Epopeus died of a wound he had received in the battle against Nycteus, and...
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  • danger or calamity—that is, figures of apotropaic magic. Their statues stood at Sicyon near the tomb of Epopeus. The gods Apollo, Zeus and Athena were...
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  • was impregnated by Zeus, and fled to Sicyon to marry King Epopeus. Pausanias writes that Nycteus waged war on Epopeus, but in battle was wounded, and died...
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  • Corax (mythology) (category Mythological kings of Sicyon)
    Lamedon was usurped by Epopeus who came from Thessaly and seized the kingdom from him. In the latter's reign, the conflict between Sicyon and Thebes ensued...
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  • Coronus (mythology) (category Mythological kings of Sicyon)
    of Caeneus instead. Coronus, king of Sicyon, son of Apollo and Chrysorthe, and father of Lamedon and Corex. Coronus inherited the kingdom of Sicyon from...
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  • Epitelidas of Laconia Epithalamium Epithets in Homer Epitrepontes Epizelus Epoché Epochus Epode Eponymous archon Epopeus Epopeus (king of Sicyon) Epsilon...
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  • of the Abantes of Euboea Eleusis, eponym and king of Eleusis, Attica Epaphus, a king of Egypt and founder of Memphis, Egypt Epopeus, a king of Sicyon...
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    Sculptures in the Schönbrunn Garden (category Cultural depictions of Helen of Troy)
    1773 and 1780 under the direction of Johann Wilhelm Beyer, a German artist and garden designer. The Great Parterre of Schönbrunn Garden is lined on both...
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  • of minor notability, about whom either nothing or very little is known, aside from any family connections. Children of Priam Homeric Neleides Sons of...
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