Bucolion (Ancient Greek:Βουκολίων,romanized: Boukolíon) may refer to the following:

• Bucolion, anArcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious KingLycaon either by thenaiadCyllene,^[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]
• Bucolion, alsoBoucolides, was eldest but illegitimate son of theTrojan kingLaomedon and thenymphCalybe.^[4] His wife was thenaiadAbarbarea, and they had at least two sons,Aesepus andPedasus. Aesepus and Pedasus participated in theTrojan War.^[5] According toTzetzes, Bucolion and Abarbarea were the parents of the Trojan heroEuphorbus who was otherwise known as the son ofPanthous andPhrontis.^[6]
• Bucolion, anAchaean soldier who fought in the Trojan War. He was slain by theMysianEurypylus.^[7]
• Bucolion, king of Arcadia who he succeeded his fatherHolaeas, son of Cypselus. He was the father ofPhialus.^[8]
• Bucolion (Βουκολιών), a place inArcadia of uncertain site, to which the Mantineans retreated, when they were defeated by the Tegeatae in 423 BC during thePeloponnesian War.^[9][10]

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Iliad/Book VI

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• Tzetzes, John,Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.Online version at theio.com

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