Polydorus died while Labdacus was a child, leaving Nycteus as his regent, although Lycus soon replaced him in that office.
He died while he was still young, after he lost a war with the king of Athens, Pandion, over their borders.
[2] Apollodorus writes that he, like his cousin Pentheus, was ripped apart by women in a bacchic frenzy for disrespect to the god Dionysus.
[3] Lycus became regent once more after his death, this time for Labdacus' son, Laius.
His descendants were called the Labdacids, and included his son Laius, who fathered Oedipus; Oedipus' children were Polynices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.