Caucon

In Greek mythology, the name Caucon (/ˈkɔːkən, ˈkɔːkɒn/; Ancient Greek: Καύκων) may refer to:

• Caucon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,^[1] Nonacris^[2] or by unknown woman.^[3] He was an ancestral hero and eponym of the Caucones that were believed to have settled in Triphylia.^[4] His tomb was shown at Lepreus,^[5] with a statue of a man with a lyre standing over it.^[6] Other traditions made him son of Poseidon and father of Lepreus by Astydameia.^[7] Caucon and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Caucon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.^[8]
• 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.^[9] Legend had it that he appeared to Epaminondas in a dream, prophesying him success in restoration of the Messenian state;^[10] the Messenian allies of Epaminondas offered sacrifices to Caucon.^[11]