In
Greek mythology, Cyllene (
Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη ''Kyllênê'') may refer to two characters:
*
Cyllene, an
Arcadian
Arcadian may refer to:
* Arcadian, someone or something from, or related to:
** Arcadia (region), the ancient Greek region
** Arcadia (regional unit), the region in modern Greece
** Accademia degli Arcadi, the Italian literary academy founded in ...
oread (mountain-
nymph) who gave her name to the
Mt. Cyllene. She nursed the infant god
Hermes, who was born on Mt. Cyllene. She became the wife of
Pelasgus[ Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 225] by whom she bore the impious king,
Lycaon.
[ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Scholia ad Euripides, '' Orestes'' 1642] Otherwise, the latter's mother was either the
Oceanid
In Greek mythology, the Oceanids or Oceanides (; grc, Ὠκεανίδες, Ōkeanídes, pl. of grc, Ὠκεανίς, Ōkeanís, label=none) are the nymphs who were the three thousand (a number interpreted as meaning "innumerable") daughters o ...
Meliboea or
Deianira
Deianira, Deïanira, or Deianeira (; Ancient Greek: Δηϊάνειρα, ''Dēiáneira'', or , ''Dēáneira'', ), also known as Dejanira, is a Calydonian princess in Greek mythology whose name translates as "man-destroyer" or "destroyer of her hu ...
, daughter of another
Lycaon. In some accounts, Cyllene was instead the wife of Lycaon but in others versions of the myth, his wife was called
Nonacris
Nonacris or Nonakris ( grc, Νώνακρις) was a town of ancient Arcadia in the region of Pheneatis northwest of Pheneus, situated in what is now Achaea, southern Greece.
Said to be named after the wife of Lycaon, Nonacris was part of the sta ...
.
* Cyllene, an Arcadian daughter of
Menephron
In Greek and Roman mythology, Menephron ( grc, Μενέφρων, Menéphrо̄n) is the name of an Arcadian man notable for his tale surrounding incest. He is only referenced to briefly in the works of Roman authors Ovid and Hyginus.
Mythology
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who was raped by her father. In some accounts, Menephon was the son who ravished his mother Cyllene.
[ Ovid, '' Metamorphoses'' 7.386]
Notes
References
*
Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website
* Dionysus of Halicarnassus, ''Roman Antiquities.'' English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950
Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ''Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt'', ''Vol I-IV''. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
* Fowler, Robert L., ''Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary.'' Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013.
*Gaius Julius Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Grammatic ...
, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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