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In Greek mythology, Bucolion (Ancient Greek: Βουκολίων, romanized: Boukolíon) may refer to the following individuals:
- Bucolion, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[1] Nonacris[2] or by unknown woman. He and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Bucolion was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[3]
- Bucolion, also Boucolides, was eldest but illegitimate son of the Trojan king Laomedon and the nymph Calybe.[4] His wife was the naiad Abarbarea, and they had at least two sons, Aesepus and Pedasus. Aesepus and Pedasus participated in the Trojan War.[5] According to Tzetzes, Bucolion and Abarbarea were the parents of the Trojan hero Euphorbus who was otherwise known as the son of Panthous and Phrontis.[6]
- Bucolion, an Achaean soldier who fought in the Trojan War. He was slain by the Mysian Eurypylus.[7]
- Bucolion, king of Arcadia who he succeeded his father Holaeas, son of Cypselus. He was the father of Phialus.[8]
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.3
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.22 ff.
- ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.8, p. 229 & 13.37, p. 575
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.615
- ^ Pausanias, 8.5.7