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Caucon In Greek mythology, the name Caucon (Καύκων) may refer to: *Caucon of Arcadia, a son of Lycaon,〔Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''Bibliotheca'', 3. 8. 1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481〕 ancestral hero and eponym of the Caucones that were believed to have settled in Triphylia.〔Scholia on ''Odyssey'', 3. 366〕 His tomb was shown at Lepreus,〔Strabo, ''Geography'', 8. 3. 16, remarking that Caucon might have been the progenitor of the tribe, or might have had the same name by coincidence〕 with a statue of a man with a lyre standing over it.〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 5. 5. 5〕 Other traditions made him son of Poseidon and father of Lepreus by Astydameia.〔Athenaeus, ''Banquet of the Learned'', 10. 412b; Aelian, ''Various Histories'', 1. 24〕 *Caucon, son of Celaenus and grandson of the autochthon Phlyus, from Eleusis. He was said to have brought the rites of the Great Goddesses from Eleusis to Andania in Messene.〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 4. 1. 5; 4. 2. 6〕 Legend had it that he appeared to Epaminondas in a dream, prophesying him success in restoration of the Messenian state;〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 2. 4. 6 - 8〕 the Messenian allies of Epaminondas offered sacrifices to Caucon.〔Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', 4. 27. 6〕 ==See also==
*List of Greek mythological figures
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