• Nyctimus is also a spider genus (Thomisidae) In Greek mythology, Nyctimus (Ancient Greek: Νύκτιμος Nyktimos) was an Arcadian prince and the youngest of...
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    who, in the most popular version of the myth, killed and cooked his son Nyctimus and served him to Zeus, to see whether the god was sufficiently all-knowing...
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  • Nyctimus is a genus of crab spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877. As of April 2019[update] it contains only two species. "Gen. Nyctimus...
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  • characters from Greek mythology. Periphetes, an Arcadian king as the son of Nyctimus, son of King Lycaon. He was the father of Parthaon, ancestor of Psophis...
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    that included the flesh of a human sacrifice, perhaps one of his sons, Nyctimus or Arcas. Zeus overturned the table and struck the house of Lyceus with...
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    Arne. Lycastus and Parrhasius - Sons of Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus of Arcadia. Amphion and Zethus - Sons of Zeus by Antiope Centaurus and...
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  • killed her groom, Xanthus, son of Aegyptus, king of Egypt. Arcadia, wife of Nyctimus, son of the impious Lycaon, and became the mother of a daughter Phylonome...
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  • into a wolf by the gods as punishment for serving them his murdered son Nyctimus' flesh at a feast. Lykos (Λύκος) of Athens: a wolf-shaped herο whose shrine...
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    1869 Musaeus Thorell, 1890 Mystaria Simon, 1895 Narcaeus Thorell, 1890 Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 Ocyllus Thorell, 1887 Onocolus Simon, 1895 Ostanes Simon...
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  • brother of Parrhasius, whose parents were Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus and Arcadia. Their mother was seduced by Ares in the guise of a shepherd;...
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