Daseatas

According to the brief classical attestations collected in modern summaries, Daseatas is one of the fifty sons of the Arcadian king Lycaon. He is presented as the reputed eponymous founder of the Arcadian city of Dasea. Ancient authors who provide the broader Lycaon genealogy (implicitly including Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Pausanias as preserved in later summaries) list Lycaon's many sons as progenitors or eponyms for various places; some accounts give possible mothers for Lycaon's sons as the naiad Cyllene or Nonacris or leave the mother unnamed. Beyond being named as a son of Lycaon and linked to Dasea, no fuller narrative of deeds or foundation ritual for Daseatas survives in the cited summaries.

No physical description, iconography, or attributes for Daseatas are recorded in the provided sources. He is attested solely by name within genealogical lists and as an eponymous founder; therefore surviving evidence presents him as a nominal ancestral figure rather than a character with distinctive visual traits.

The sources provide no account of supernatural powers, characteristic behaviors, or notable deeds for Daseatas. His role in the tradition is etiological and genealogical—serving as a named ancestor/eponym rather than as an active agent with recorded abilities—which follows the common pattern among the many sons of Lycaon who function primarily as founders or name-givers for Arcadian locales in classical lists.