1. A king of the Dolopians, in the island of Scyros, near Euboea, father of Deidameia, and
grandfather of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus. (Apollod. 3.13.8.)
Once when Theseus came to him, Lycomedes, dreading the influence of the stranger upon his own
sub ects, thrust him down a rock. Some related that the cause of this violence was, that
Lycomedes would not give up the estates which Theseus had in Scyros, or the circumstance that
Lycomedes wanted to gain the favour of Menestheus. (Plut. Thes.
35; Paus. 1.17, in fin.; Tzetz. ad
Lycoph. 1324; Soph. Phil. 243; Apollod. 3.13.)