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]
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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]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.