Plutarch says that Lycomedes also killed Theseus who had fled to his island in exile by pushing him off a cliff for he feared that Theseus would dethrone him.

The latter seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally.

Theseus seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally.

Theseus seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally.

The latter seeks refuge in Skyros, whose King Lycomedes is an old friend and ally.

) Once when Theseus came to him, Lycomedes, dreading the influence of the stranger upon his own subjects, thrust him down a rock.

Some related that the cause of this violence was, that Lycomedes would not give up the estates which Theseus had in Scyros, or the circumstance that Lycomedes wanted to gain the favour of Menestheus.

Lycomedes recounts a vision he received from the God of John, telling him that a man from Miletus was coming to heal his wife, Cleopatra, who had died seven days before from illness.

According to a lost epic of his house, sung by the Samian poet Asios, he married Samia, daughter of the river god Maeander, who bore him Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses, and Parthenope, the mother of Lycomedes.

Lycomedes, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds assassinates him.

Lycomedes, however, considers his visitor a threat to the throne and proceeds to assassinate him.

She disguised him as a woman in the court of Lycomedes, the King of Scyros.

Achilles at the court of King Lycomedes, panel of an Attic sarcophagus, ca.

Odysseus finds Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes.

Lycomedes ( also known as Lycurgus ), in Greek mythology, was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War.

It was there that Achilles married Lycomedes ' daughter Deidamia, who bore a son, Neoptolemus.

In Greek mythology, Deidamia ( or Deidamea, Deidameia ; Greek ) is the daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros.

** Lycurgus, a. k. a. Lycomedes, in Homer

Thebes organized a conference to have the terms of the peace accepted, but their diplomatic initiative failed: the negotiations could not resolve the hostility between Thebes and other states that resented its influence ( such as the Arcadian leader Lycomedes who challenged the right of the Thebans to hold the congress in Thebes ); the peace was never fully accepted, and fighting soon resumed.

She was the mother of Lycomedes.

Existing copies of the manuscript begin in section 19, in which a small group that includes both the author of the work and John is approaching Ephesus, only to be met by Lycomedes, a notable and powerful figure within the city.

In the first ten years of the league's existence, Cimon / Kimon forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyros and sent Athenian colonists there.

Searching for marble in 1904 he first visited the island of Skyros and was confrontated with the cubic architecture of the Greek islands.

He died at 4: 46 pm on 23 April 1915 in a French hospital ship moored in a bay off the island of Skyros in the Aegean on his way to the landing at Gallipoli.

Grave of Rupert Brooke on the Greek island of Skyros

* In the film The Pleasure of His Company, Fred Astaire, acting as Biddeford ' Pogo ' Poole, mentions that his going to visit Brooke's grave on the Greek island of Skyros.

Traveler / travel writer Halliburton, in recreating Odysseus ' adventures, visits the grave of Brooke on the Greek island of Skyros.

* Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.

The island belongs to Euboea Prefecture which also includes two municipalities on the mainland, Anthidona and Avlida, as well as the island municipality of Skyros.

The poem refers to Brooke's burial, at 11 o ' clock at night in an olive grove on the island of Skyros in Greece.

Skyros ( Greek: Σκύρος ) is an island in Greece, the southernmost of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea.

Around the 2nd millennium BC and slightly later, the island was known as The Island of the Magnetes where the Magnetes used to live and later Pelasgia and Dolopia and later Skyros.

Apart from the island Skyros it consists of a few uninhabited islands.

Rupert Brooke, the famous English poet, is buried on Skyros, having died on board a French hospital ship moored off the island in 1915, during World War I.

The name Theseion or Temple of Theseus was attributed to the monument under the assumption it housed the remains of the Athenian hero Theseus, brought back to the city from the island of Skyros by Kimon in 475 BC, but refuted after inscriptions from within the temple associated it firmly with Hephaestus.

The larger island of Skopelos is visible from Skiathos with the more distant islands of Euboea and Skyros visible under very clear weather conditions.

It is located east of mainland Greece and Magnesia, northeast of Euboea and northwest of the island of Skyros.

* 7th MISEP ( Advanced Warning Squadron ) ( 7η ΜΗΣΕΠ-Μοίρα Σταθμού Ελέγχου και Προειδοποίησης ), in Skyros island

He has led workshops in Byzantine painting techniques on the Greek island of Skyros.

He threw a haggis on the island of Inchmurrin, Loch Lomond, in August 1984.

The woman then told him that she was a daughter of Triton named Kalliste, and that when he threw the dirt into the sea it would grow into an island for his descendants to live on.

Or he may have been the son of Kres, the personification of Crete ; In Argonautica Talos threw rocks at any approaching ship to protect his island.

In revenge, Oenopion stabbed out Orion's eyes, and then threw him off the island.

By about the 15th century BC a massive volcanic explosion known as the Minoan eruption blew the island of Thera apart, casting more than four times the amount of ejecta as the explosion of Krakatoa and generating a tsunami in the enclosed Aegean that threw pumice up to 250 meters above sea level onto the slopes of Anaphi, 27 km to the east.

Only a few of the twenty-four thousand Japanese defenders on the island were captured ; large numbers of local civilians threw themselves and their children off high cliffs rather than be captured.

Upon which the officer .... gathers all the cattle of the island .... shot 60 of the best dead, threw the old beef overboard and would not allow the poor distressed owners to finger a gobbet of it, no, not a single tripe.

The island is well known for the tragic story of Lucia Rosa who threw herself into the Tyrrhenian Sea rather than being forced to marry a man against her wishes.

On the island of Pag, the bora threw fish out of the sea.

According to Greek mythology, the island was formed when Poseidon cut off a part of Kos and threw it onto the giant Polyvotis to stop him from escaping.

Another version of the legend says that the people gathered up the wheat and grain of their despised ruler and threw it into the Tiber, where it eventually became the foundation of the island.

The island people gathered at the beach and threw stones to the soldiers.