Cycnus
- The butterfly genus Cycnus is now synonymized with Panthiades.
In Greek mythology, multiple characters were known as Cycnus (Ancient Greek: Κύκνος) or Cygnus. The literal meaning of the name is "swan", and accordingly most of them ended up being transformed into swans.
- Cycnus, son of Ares.[1]
- Cycnus, king of Kolonai.[2]
- Cycnus, friend of Phaethon.[3]
- Cycnus, son of Apollo.[4]
- Cycnus, one of the suitors of Penelope.[5]
- Cycnus, son of King Eredion of Achaea, who, in one version, seduced Leda and made her mother of triplets: the Dioscuri and Helen.[6] In all other sources, she had these children by Zeus who approached her in the shape of a swan (kyknos).
- Cycnus, a blunder for Guneus in the manuscript of Hyginus' Fab. 97 (list of the Achaean leaders against Troy).
According to Pseudo-Eratosthenes and Hyginus' Poetical Astronomy, the constellation Cygnus was the stellar image of the swan Zeus had transformed into in order to seduce Leda[7] or Nemesis.[8]
References
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 27. 6
- ^ Strabo, Geography, 13. 1. 19
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2, 367 sqq.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 12
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, Epitome of Book 4, 7. 27
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 506
- ^ Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi, 25
- ^ Hyginus, Poetical Astronomy, 2. 8
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