In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus (" the King of Thieves ") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.

* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.

In Odyssey 19, in which Odysseus's early childhood is recounted, Euryclea asks Autolycus, to name him.

Autolycus fathered Anticlea ( who married Laertes of Ithaca and was the mother of Odysseus ) and several sons, of whom only Aesimus is named.

* A comic thief in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale boasts that he is named after Autolycus and, like him, is " a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles ".

* Autolycus is also the name of a fictional racehorse in the 1934 film The Clairvoyant, starring Claude Rains.

* Autolycus is the name of Debbie Aldridge's horse in the BBC Radio 4 series ' The Archers '.

* Autolycus is the name of a midget submarine owned by the Lost Boys, the thieves of Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series of books.

* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!

With the exception of Autolycus ' On the Moving Sphere, the Elements is one of the oldest extant Greek mathematical treatises and it is the oldest extant axiomatic deductive treatment of mathematics.

Armin is generally credited with all the " licensed fools " in the repertory of the Chamberlain's and King's Men: Touchstone in As You Like It, Feste in Twelfth Night, the Fool in King Lear, Lavatch in All's Well That Ends Well, and perhaps Thersites in Troilus and Cressida, the Porter in Macbeth, the Fool in Timon of Athens, and Autolycus in The Winter's Tale.

183 ), is his Apology to Autolycus ( Apologia ad Autolycum ), a series of books defending Christianity written to a pagan friend.

The ostensible object of Ad Autolycum is to convince a pagan friend, Autolycus, a man of great learning and an earnest seeker after truth, of the divine authority of the Christian religion, while at the same time he exhibits the falsehood and absurdity of paganism.

It is subject to a big discussion that includes Alcibiades, Charmides, Autolycus, Pausanias and Sophocles.

Thallus is first mentioned around AD 180 by Theophilus Bishop of Antioch in his Ad Autolycum (' To Autolycus ') 3. 29: Thallus makes mention of Belus, the King of the Assyrians, and Cronus the Titan ; and says that Belus, with the Titans, made war against Zeus and his compeers, who are called gods.

* In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, the rogue Autolycus tells the shepherd and his son that because Perdita has fallen in love with the prince, her adoptive father will be stoned, while her adoptive brother will be subjected to the following punishment: " He has a son ,— who shall be flayed alive ; then ' nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest ; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead ; then recovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion ; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall he be set against a brick wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him ,— where he is to behold him with flies blown to death.

Nails also identifies Socrates ' prosecutor with the Lycon who is the butt of jokes in Aristophanes and became a successful democratic politician after the fall of the Four Hundred ; she suggests that he may have joined in the prosecution because he associated Socrates with the Thirty Tyrants, who had executed his son, Autolycus.

Others, however, question the identification of Socrates ' prosecutor with the father of Autolycus ; John Burnet, for instance, claims it " is most improbable ".

East of Archimedes is the crater Autolycus, and the stretch of lunar surface between these two formations was the crash-landing site of Luna 2.

Directly to the south is the smaller crater Autolycus, while to the southwest is the large Archimedes.

Autolycus seems to infer this connotation of the name and accordingly names his grandson Odysseus.

This happened when the nurse of the child Eurycleia " laid the child upon his knees and spoke, and addressed him: Autolycus, find now thyself a name to give to thy child's own child ; be sure he has long been prayed for " ( Homer 19. 386-403 ).

In the early stories he has a pet jackdaw called Autolycus.

This problem was pointed out in Antiquity by Autolycus of Pitane.

* Chione ( daughter of Daedalion ), mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively

Heracles had not left the city yet when Eurytus's mares were run off, presumably by Autolycus, a notorious thief.

He was the father of Odysseus ( who was thus called Laertiades, Λαερτιάδης ) and Ctimene by his wife Anticlea, daughter of the thief Autolycus.

In Greek mythology, Anticlea (, " Without-Fame ") was the daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea and mother of Odysseus by Laërtes ( though some say by Sisyphus ).

Autolycus was conceived by Hermes touching the virgin Chione's face ( Ovid 11.

Herakles, the great Greek hero, was taught the art of wrestling by Autolycus ( Apollodorus 2. 4. 9 ).

* In the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, Autolycus appeared as a comical antihero, portrayed by cult actor Bruce Campbell, who has a kinder heart than he lets on.

After he enters his own house as a guest of Penelope disguised as a beggar, Eurycleia bathes him and recognizes him by a scar just above his knee, which he got from a boar while hunting with his grandfather Autolycus.

John Fawcett ( actor ) | John Fawcett as Autolycus in " The Winter's Tale " ( 1828 ) by Thomas Charles Wageman

They are joined in their voyage by the Shepherd and his son, a Clown, who are directed there by Autolycus.

Autolycus ( 1836 ) by Charles Robert Leslie

His early education was provided by Autolycus the mathematician, with whom he migrated to Sardis.

We gather from his writings ( the only remaining being his apology to Autolycus ) that he was born a pagan, not far from the Tigris and Euphrates, and was led to embrace Christianity by studying the Holy Scriptures, especially the prophetical books.

Pausanias ( 2. 37. 1 ) says that the mysteries were initiated by Philammon, the twin " other " of Autolycus.

Other beings who had been absorbed by the Soul Gem, such as Kray-Tor and Autolycus, also lived in peace with former enemies.

Scattered wisps of bright ray material lie across the floor, most likely deposited by the impact that created Autolycus.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Autolycus.

Autolycus ' works were translated by Maurolycus in the sixteenth century.