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