# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lycortas
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:45:39.210Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lycortas"
name: "Lycortas"
slug: "lycortas"
description: "Lycortas of Megalopolis, son of Thearidas, was a politician of the Achaean League active in the first half of the 2nd century BC. He was the father of the historian Polybius. A political ally of Philopoemen, he shared the latter's view that the Romans should be dealt with according to the strict letter of their treaty with the League, and that no more assistance should be given to them than was necessary. In this way they hoped to delay the inevitable increase of Rome's power over Greece. Lycortas' son Polybius shared his father's views, and for this reason was one of the thousand Greeks deported to Italy in the aftermath of the Roman victory at Pydna in 168 BC. Lycortas' own fate is unknown, owing to the fragmentary nature of our sources at this point."
tagline: "Ancient Megalopolitan politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "-201"
deathDate: "-101"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.6
  momentum:             1.819911223842739
  historical:           8.339453333333333
  currentAttention:     8.771929824561402
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Ликорт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licortes"
    title: "Licortes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9B%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Λυκόρτας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycortas"
    title: "Lycortas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licortas_de_Megal%C3%B3polis"
    title: "Licortas de Megalópolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykortas"
    title: "Lykortas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycortas"
    title: "Lycortas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licorta"
    title: "Licorta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98"
    title: "ლიკორტი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycortas"
    title: "Lycortas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2065138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump