Nyctimus is also a spider genus (Thomisidae) In Greek mythology, Nyctimus (Ancient Greek: Νύκτιμος Nyktimos) was an Arcadian prince and the youngest of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Arne. Lycastus and Parrhasius - Sons of Ares and Phylonome, daughter of Nyctimus of Arcadia. Amphion and Zethus - Sons of Zeus by Antiope Centaurus and...

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...

was then pursued by the Furies and later on, flung himself to the river Nyctimus in Arcadia which bore his name thereafter. Diodorus Siculus, 5.56.5 & 5...

killed his 50 sons by lightning bolts, but supposedly revived Lycaon's son Nyctimus, who the king had slaughtered and who succeeded his father in the kingdom...

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...