Lycus (Lykos, Lycos, ) may refer to:

Mythology

Lycus (mythology) Lycus ( ; ) is the name of multiple people in Greek mythology: *Lycus, one of the Telchines who fought under Dionysus in his Indian campaign. He is otherwise said to have erected a temple to Apollo Lycius on the banks of Scamander, Xanthus river. ...

, the name of numerous people in Greek mythology, including **

Lycus (brother of Nycteus) In Greek mythology, Lycus or Lykos ( ; ) was a ruler of the ancient city of Ancient Thebes (Boeotia). His rule was preceded by the regency of Nycteus and in turn, Lycus was succeeded by the twins Amphion and Zethus. Family Lycus and his brothe ...

, a ruler of the ancient city of Ancient Thebes ** Lycus (descendant of Lycus), son of Lycus (brother of Nycteus), appearing in Euripides's ''Heracles'' ** Lycus, son of Poseidon

Rivers

* Lycos or

Great Zab The Great Zab or Upper Zab (; or ; ; ) is an approximately long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq. It rises in Turkey near Lake Van and joins the Tigris in Iraq south of Mosul. During its course, the river collects water from many tributar ...

, a river of Assyria, located in modern-day Turkey and Iraq * Lycus (river of Bithynia), flows into the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) near Heraclea Pontica *

Lycus (river of Cilicia) Lycus or Lykos () was an ancient river of Cilicia, mentioned only by Pliny (v. 22), that flowed between the Pyramus In Greek mythology, Pyramus and Thisbe () are a pair of ill-fated lovers from Babylon, whose story is best known from Ovid's na ...

, flows from the Pyramus to the Pinarus * Lycus, now known as Kouris, in Cyprus that flows into the Mediterranean Sea at

Kourion Kourion (; ) was an important ancient Greek city-state on the southwestern coast of the island of Cyprus. In the twelfth century BCE, after the Mycenaean Greece#Collapse or Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC), collapse of the Mycenaean p ...

Lycus (river of Lydia) Lycus or Lykos () was an ancient river of Lydia Lydia (; ) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom situated in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Later, it became an important province of the Achaemenid Empire and then the Roman Empire. Its ca ...

, a tributary of the Hyllus river * Lycus (river of Mysia), near Carseae *

Lycus (river of Phoenicia) The Nahr al-Kalb (, meaning ''Dog River'') is a river in Lebanon. It runs for from a spring in Jeita near the Jeita Grotto to the Mediterranean Sea. Historical significance The Nahr al-Kalb is the ancient Lycus River. The river mouth is reno ...

, also known as Nahr al-Kalb, flows into the Mediterranean near Beirut *

Lycus (river of Phrygia) Lycus or Lykos (; ) was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia. It is a tributary of the Maeander and joins it a few kilometers south of Tripolis. It had its sources in the eastern parts of Mount Cadmus (Strabo Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "sq ...

, a historical river, a tributary of the Maeander * Lycus (river of Pontus), modern Kelkit, a river in the Black Sea Region of Turkey and the longest tributary of the Yeşil River *

Platani (river) The Platani (), known in ancient Greek as the (''Lykos'', "wolf") or (''Halykos'', "Salty"), is a river in southern Sicily, Italy. It is the fifth longest in the island after Imera Meridionale, Simeto, Belice and Dittaino, with a course of 10 ...

, a river of Sicily, was sometimes also called the Lycus. *

Lycus (river of Constantinople) The Lycus (, lit. "wolf"; ) is a stream, now vaulted over, that flowed in Constantinople (today's Istanbul), which was important for historical reasons. The only waterway present within the Fatih, walled city, it was covered in the 1950s to build t ...

, a stream on the Byzantine peninsula that flowed into the Harbour of Theodosius in Constantinople on the Propontis (now Yenikapı, Istanbul)

Fictional characters

Karl Lykos Sauron () is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Neal Adams, and made his first appearance in ''The X-Men'' #59 (August 1969). Sauron is the alte ...

, a Marvel Comics villain also known as Sauron * Lycus, a DC Comics villain and son of

Ares (DC Comics) Ares (also sometimes Mars) is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. Based on the eponymous Greek mythological figure, he is the Olympian god of war and major recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woma ...

Other uses

* ''Lycus'' (beetle), a genus of net-winged beetles

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