Bravo III
p. 117
- In [Nemean Odes hypotesis] (c), we learn that some believed that the Games were founded in honor of the son of Talaos, the brother of Adrastos. This must refer to the Argive king Pronax, whose death is associated with the foundation of the Games in one other source as well.
Gantz
p. 511
- Elsewhere there is some scant evidence that might relate to the Euripidean parents [of Opheltes], ... Pausanias tells us that on the Amyklai Throne Adrastos and Tydeus halt a fight between Amphiaraos and Lykourgos, son of Pronax (3.18.12). The same scene is apparently represented on the elbow guard of a shield-strap from Olympia where a central figure named as Adrastos stands with raised arm between two warriors closing in battle; ... if this is the Lykourgos of the Hypsipyle, and if he was present to [cont.]
p. 512
- witness or hear of his son's death in some accounts (in Euripides, he is out of town), he might well blame Ampiaraos for the tragedy and seek vengeance. But against this possibility is the fact that the shield-relief offers no sign of a woman or child, although there is certainly room for them. We saw too, that in the Nemean Odes scholia Pronax is the son of Talaos and brother of Adrastus, and this arrangement occurs also in Apollodorus (ApB 1.9.13). Thus, if Pausanias' information is right, the Lykourgas of the Throne would be Adrastos' nephew, and more likely a part of the expedition setting out from Argos than someone encountered along the way at Nemea. For what it is worth, Apollodorus himself distinguishes two Lykourgoi in his discussion of these legends, the one a son of Pronax of whom we hear nothing more, the other a son of Pheres (and brother of Admentos) who marries Eurydike and begets Opheltes (ApB 1.9.14). How early this figure might be we cannot say; or Archaic sources neither mention or exclude him.
Grimal
s.v. Lycurgus 3
- Another Lycurgus, sometimes called Lycus, was a king of Nemea. He was one of Pheres' sons (or alternatively of PRONAX) and either by Amphithea or Eurydice he had a child called Opheltes. This child was put in the charge of its nurse Hypsipyle, but was strangeled by a serpent near a spring (see AMPHIARUS). The tomb of this Lycurgus was to be seen at Nemea in Zeus' sacred wood.
p. 405
- Lycurgus ... (3) Hyg Fab15; 74; 273; Apollod. Bibl. 1,9,4; 3,6,4; Paus. 2,15,3; 3,18,12; Stat. Theb. 5,660.
s.v. Pronax
- (Πρῶναξ) One of the sons of Talaus, himself the son of Bias (Table 1), and so the brother of Adrastus and Eriphyle. He had a daughter, Amphithea, who married ADRASTUS, and was also said to have had a son LYCURGUS, the father of Opheltes. According to one tradition, Pronax was killed by his cousin AMPHIARAUS during a revolt at Argos. It was also said that the Nemean games were originally funeral games in his honour.
p. 507
- Pronax. Apollod. 'Bibl. 1.9.13; schol.on Pind. Nem. 9.13 (30); Paus. 3.18.12
Hard
p. 150
- Asklepios' zeal as a healer carried him too far when he set out to revive the dead. According to varying accounts, he revived Hippolytos at the request of Artemis [cont.]
p. 151
- (see p. 359), or Lykourgas, son of Pronax, and Kapaneus, two Archives who died during the first Theban War, or ...
p. 333
- [Adrastos] also had a brother Pronax who met his death before the war.224
Parada
s.v. Lycurgus 3 (Lycus 11.)
- King of Nemea.
- •Pheres 1 ∞
- ••a)Ampithea 2.
- ••b)Eurydice 1.
- •••a)b)Opheletes 1.
- D.-Apd. 3.6.4. •-••a)b)- •••)a)b)Apd 1.9.14.
s.v. Lycurgus 4.
- •Pronax ∞
- ♇Raised from the dead by Asclepius.
- •Apd. 1.9.13, ♇Apd. 3.10.3.
s.v. Pronax
- •Talaus ∞ Lysimache 1.
- ••
- •••Lycurgus 4, Amphithea 1.
- •-:•••Apd.1.9.13.
Smith
s.v. Pronax
- (Πρῶναξ), a son of Talaus and Lysimache, and a brother of Adrastus and Eriphyle. He was the father of Lyeurgus [sic] and Amphithea (Apollod. 1.9.13). According to some traditions the Nemean games were instituted in honour of Pronax. (Aelian, Ael. VH 4.5; comp. Paus. 3.18.7.)
Tripp
s.v. Pronax
- A son of Talaüs and Lysimache. Pronax was a brother of Adrastus and the father of Lycurgus and Amphithea [Apollodorus 1.19.13]