Bucolion, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiadCyllene,[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, king of Arcadia who he succeeded his father Holaeas, son of Cypselus. He was the father of Phialus.[8]
Bucolion (Βουκολιών), a place in Arcadia of uncertain site, to which the Mantineans retreated, when they were defeated by the Tegeatae in 423 BC during the Peloponnesian War.[9][10]
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