Lynceus (disambiguation)
Lynkeus (Greek Λυνκεύς " Luchsäugiger "; Latin Lynceus ) is an ancient Greek, male personal name. The lynx was for ages to be particularly keen-eyed.
Well-known bearers of the name:
- Lynkeus (son of Aegyptus ), King of Argos
- Lynkeus (son of Aphareus )
- Lynceus, a dog of Actaeon
- Lynceus of Samos, an ancient author
- Lynkeus ( poet ), author of a tragedy on the Seven against Thebes
- Lynkeus ( Scythian ), King of the Scythians ( Ovid Metamorphoses 5.643 ff)
- Lynkeus (Sicily ), King of Sicily
In poetry:
- Lynceus, a Trojan horse that drops in Virgil's Aeneid on the side of Aeneas in the fight against Turnus.
- Lynceus, the watchman of Goethe's drama Faust. The second part of tragedy
- Lynceus was also a pen name of Erwin Heinrich Bauer (1857-1901)
As a surname:
- Josef Popper - Lynkeus (1838-1921), Austrian social philosopher and writer
- Disambiguation