Alcyone (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Alcyone (/ælˈsaɪ.əniː/; Ancient Greek Ἁλκυόνη Αlkuónē, derived from alkyon αλκυων "kingfisher") was the name of the following personages.
- Alcyone (Pleiades), one of the Pleiades seven sisters.[1]
- Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.[2][3]
- Alcyone, daughter of Sthenelus and Nicippe who attemptedly raped by the Centaur Homadus.[4][5]
- Cleopatra Alcyone, Meleager’s wife.[6]
- Alcyone, wife of King Chalcodon of Euboea and possible mother of Elephenor.[7]
- Alcyone, a priestess at Argos for three generations before the Trojan War.[8]
- Alcyone, mother of Serus and Alazygus by Halirrhotius, son of Perieres.[9]
References
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 3.10.1
- ^ Hesiod. Catalogue of Women, fr. 15;
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 1.7.3-4
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Book 2.4.5
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca Historica, Book 4.12.7
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, 174
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Epitome 3.11
- ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca Historica, Book 1.22.3
- ^ Scholia on Pindar. Olympian Ode 10.83 quoted in Hesiod. Catalogue of Women, fr.64
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