Caucon (Son of Lycaon)

Caucon of Arcadia, a prince as one of the 50 sons of King Lycaon, ancestral hero and eponym of the Caucones that were believed to have settled in Triphylia.[ His tomb was shown at Lepreus, with a statue of a man with a lyre standing over it. Other traditions made him son of Poseidon and father of Lepreus by Astydameia.

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1
Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
Scholia on Odyssey, 3. 366
Strabo, Geographica 8.3.16, remarking that Caucon might have been the progenitor of the tribe, or might have had the same name by coincidence
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 5.5.5
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10. 412b
Aelian, Varia Historia 1.24

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