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Lycus or Lykos (Greek:
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 ?????) seems to have originated in the impression made upon the mind of the beholder by a torrent rushing down the side of a hill, which suggested the idea of a wolf (Greek: Lykos) rushing at its prey.

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Lycus or Lykos (Greek:
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 ?????) seems to have originated in the impression made upon the mind of the beholder by a torrent rushing down the side of a hill, which suggested the idea of a wolf (Greek: Lykos) rushing at its prey.

Lycus or Lykos may refer to:
  • Lycus (mythology)
    Lycus (mythology)

    Lycus or Lykos is the name of several people in Greek mythology:* Lycus , a Libyan king in Greek mythology who sacrificed strangers to his father....
    , several people in Greek mythology, including
    • Lycus (brother of Nycteus)
      Lycus (brother of Nycteus)

      In Greek Mythology, Lycus was a ruler of the ancient city of Thebes, Greece. His rule was preceded by the regency of Nycteus, and he was succeeded by the twins Amphion and Zethus....
    • Lycus (Descendant of Lycus)
      Lycus (Descendant of Lycus)

      A son of Lycus , Lycus appears in Euripides's Heracles . Originally from Euboea, he seized power in Thebes, Greece by killing Creon, who at the time was regent for the son of Eteocles, Laodamas....
  • Karl Lykos, a fictional Marvel Comics
    Marvel Comics

    Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
     villain known as Sauron
  • Lycus (DC Comics), a fictional DC Comics
    DC Comics

    DC Comics is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. A subsidiary of Warner Bros....
     villain and son of Ares (DC Comics)
    Ares (DC Comics)

    Ares is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. Based upon the Greek mythological figure of the same name, he is the God of War and the major adversary of Wonder Woman....


Geography

  • Lykos (Small beach in southern Crete), small secluded beach in Southern Crete, near Sfakia. Location of a couple of tavernas and small hotels.
  • Lycos or Zab River
    Zab River

    File:Zab rivers.PNGZab is the name given to two separate rivers that flow through Iran, Iraq and Turkey to become the two principal tributary of the Tigris....
    , a river of Assyria, located in modern-day Turkey and Iraq
  • Lycus (river of Bithynia)
    Lycus (river of Bithynia)

    Lycus or Lykos was an ancient river of Bithynia. It flowed in the east of Bithynia in a westerly direction, and emptied itself into the Black Sea a little to the south of Heraclea Pontica, which was twenty stadia distant from it....
    , in Bithynia that flows into the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) near Heraclea Pontica
  • Lycus (river of Cyprus), in Cyprus
    Cyprus

    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is an island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece, west of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, south of Turkey and north of Egypt....
     that flows into the Mediterranean Sea
    Mediterranean Sea

    The Mediterranean Sea is a sea or Ocean off the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia....
     at Kourion
    Kourion

    Kourion , also Curias or Latin: Curium, was a city in Cyprus, which endured from antiquity until the early Cyprus in the Middle Ages....
  • Lycus (river of Cilicia)
    Lycus (river of Cilicia)

    Lycus or Lykos was an ancient river of Cilicia, mentioned only by Pliny the Elder , that flowed between the Pyramus and Pinarus....
    , in Cilicia that flows from the Pyramus to the Pinarus
  • Lycus (river of Cilicia Campestris), also called Chersus, in Cilicia Campestris that flows into the Issucus Sinus near Issus
    Issus

    Issus can refer to:* Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, in which Alexander the Great beat Darius III** Issus , an ancient settlement located in the modern Turkish Province of Hatay, near the battle...
  • Lycus (river of Colchis), in Colchis
    Colchis

    In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgia , state monarchy and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgians and its subgroups....
    , formed by the junction of the Apsarus and Glaucus
    Glaucus

    In Greek mythology, Glaucus was the name of several different figures, including one god . These figures are sometimes referred to as Glaukos or Glacus....
     rivers.
  • Lycus (river of Lydia)
    Lycus (river of Lydia)

    Lycus or Lykos was an ancient river of Lydia that flowed in a southwesterly direction by the town of Thyatira. Whether it emptied itself directly into the Hermus, or only after joining with the Hyllus, is uncertain. ...
    , in Lydia that is a tributary of the Hyllus river
  • Lycus (river of Phoenicia), in Phoenicia that flows into the Mediterranean near Beirut
  • Lycus (river of Phrygia)
    Lycus (river of Phrygia)

    Lycus or Lykos was the name of a river in ancient Phrygia, a tributary of the Maeander, which it joins a few kilometers south of Tripolis ....
    , in Phrygia and Lycia that falls into the Maeander near Tripolis
  • Lycus (river of Pontus), in Pontus
    Pontus

    Pontus or Pontos is a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in Antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos Euxeinos , or simply Pontos....
     that falls into the Black Sea near Amisus
  • Lycus (river of Sarmatia Asiatica), in Sarmatia Asiatica that is a tributary of the Tanais
    Tanais

    Tanais is the ancient name for the Don River, Russia in Russia. Strabo regarded it as the boundary between Europe and Asia.In antiquity, Tanais was also the name of a city in the Don river delta that reaches into the northeasternmost part of the Sea of Azov, which the Greeks called Lake Maeotis....
     river
  • Lycus (river of Sarmatia), in Sarmatia
    Sarmatia

    Sarmatia or Sarmatian can refer to:* the land of Sarmatians, western Scythia as described by many classical authors, such as Herodotus in the 5th century BC...
     that falls into the Sea of Azov
    Sea of Azov

    The Sea of Azov is the world's shallowest sea, linked by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula....
     (Palus Mæotis), now called the Kalmius river
  • Lycus (river of Constantinople), running through ancient Constantinople
    Constantinople

    Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
     (modern Istanbul
    Istanbul

    Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
    ), partly underground