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Encyclopedia Britannica



AUTOLYCUS

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 47 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AUTOLYCUS , in Greek mythology, the son of
Hermes
  and father of Anticleia,
mother
  of Odysseus. He lived at the foot of
Mount
 
Parnassus
 , and was famous as a thief and swindler. On one occasion he met his match.
Sisyphus
 , who had lost some cattle, suspected Autolycus of being the thief, but was unable to bring it
home
  to him, since he possessed the power of changing everything that was touched by his hands.
Sisyphus
  accordingly burnt his name into the hoofs of his cattle, and, during a visit to Autolycus, recognized his property. It is said that on this occasion Sisyphus seduced Autolycus's daughter Anticleia, and that Odysseus was really the son of Sisyphus, not of Laertes, whom Anticleia afterwards married. The
object
  of the story is to establish the close connexion between
Hermes
 , the god of
theft
  and cunning, and the three persons Sisyphus, Odysseus, Autolycuswho are the incarnate representations of these practices. Autolycus is also said to have instructed Heracles in the art of wrestling, and to have taken
part
  in the Argonautic expedition.
Iliad, x. 267; Odyssey, xix. 395;
Ovid
 , 'Metam. xi. 313; Apollodorus i. 9; Hyginus, Fab. 201.


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