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{{Short description|In Greek mythology, may refer to one of four individuals}}
{{For|the cockroach genus|Bucolion (cockroach)}}

'''Bucolion''' ({{langx|grc|Βουκολίων|Boukolíon}}) may refer to the following:

* Bucolion, an [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadian]] prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King [[Lycaon of Arcadia|Lycaon]] either by the [[naiad]] [[Cyllene (mythology)|Cyllene]],<ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ''Antiquitates Romanae'' 1.13.1</ref> [[Nonacris (mythology)|Nonacris]]<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+8.17.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Nonacris 8.17.6]</ref> 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.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.8.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=8&highlight=Aegaeon 3.8.1]</ref>
* Bucolion, also '''Boucolides''', was eldest but illegitimate son of the [[Troy|Trojan]] king [[Laomedon]] and the [[nymph]] [[Calybe]].<ref>Apollodorus, 3.12.3</ref> His wife was the [[naiads|naiad]] [[Abarbarea]], and they had at least two sons, [[Aesepus]] and [[Pedasus]]. Aesepus and Pedasus participated in the [[Trojan War]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' 6.22 ff.</ref> According to [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], Bucolion and Abarbarea were the parents of the Trojan hero [[Euphorbus]] who was otherwise known as the son of [[Panthous]] and [[Phrontis]].<ref>[[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]], ''Chiliades'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades1.html 1.8, p. 229] & [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades13.html#13.37 13.37, p. 575]</ref>
* Bucolion, an [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaean]] soldier who fought in the Trojan War. He was slain by the [[Mysians|Mysian]] [[Eurypylus (son of Telephus)|Eurypylus]].<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], 6.615</ref>
* Bucolion, king of Arcadia who he succeeded his father [[Holaeas]], son of Cypselus. He was the father of [[Phialus]].<ref>Pausanias, 8.5.7</ref>
* Bucolion (Βουκολιών), a place in [[Arcadia (region)|Arcadia]] of uncertain site, to which the Mantineans retreated, when they were defeated by the Tegeatae in 423 BC during the [[Peloponnesian War]].<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Thuc.%204.134&lang=original Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 4.134]</ref><ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DB%3Aentry+group%3D10%3Aentry%3Dbucolion-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Bucolion]</ref>

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Sons of Lycaon]]
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== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus|Dionysus of Halicarnassus]], ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0572 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Homer]], [[Iliad|''The Iliad'']] with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. {{ISBN|978-0674995796|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0134 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Homer, ''Homeri Opera'' in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|978-0198145318|}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0133 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica|The Fall of Troy]]'' translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus1.html Online version at theio.com]
* Quintus Smyrnaeus, ''The Fall of Troy''. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0490 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[John Tzetzes|Tzetzes, John]], ''Book of Histories,'' Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades1.html Online version at theio.com]



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