Son of Pronax in the Biantid house at Argos, Lycurgus quarrelled with Amphiaraus before the march on Thebes — a feud Adrastus and Tydeus held apart in Polygnotus' painting at Delphi.1
Apollodorus names Lycurgus as the son of Pronax, brother among the children of Talaus to Adrastus, Eriphyle, and the rest. Through Pronax he stands uncle to Amphithea, whom Adrastus married, and so ties the Biantid royal marriages to the Melampodid seer Amphiaraus, Eriphyle's husband.2
Pausanias saw the quarrel preserved in art. In Polygnotus' underworld at Delphi, Amphiaraus and Lycurgus son of Pronax come to blows while Adrastus and Tydeus restrain them — the feud of the Seven before ever they reached Thebes.3
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