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Cycnus
In Greek mythology, several 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] Son of Poseidon.
- Cycnus, lover of Phaethon.[3]
- Cycnus, son of Apollo.[4]
- Cycnus, son of King Ederion (Ancient Greek: Ἐδερίων) or Eredion of Achaea, who, in the 6th century CE account of John Malalas, seduced Leda and made her mother of triplets: the Dioscuri and Helen.[5][AI-generated source?] In all other sources, she had these children by Zeus who approached her in the shape of a swan (kyknos). For more information, see Leda and the Swan.
- Cycnus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.[6] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the assistance of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.[7]
- Cycnus, a blunder for Guneus in the manuscript of Hyginus[8] (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[9] or Nemesis.[10] Pausanias and Servius state that Apollo turned Cycnus of Liguria into a swan after the death of his lover Phaeton, then later placed him among the stars as the constellation Cygnus.[11][12][13]
- ^ Pausanias, 1.27.6
- ^ Strabo, 13.1.19
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.367 sqq.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 12
- ^ Malalas, 82.17; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 88–89
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.26–27
- ^ Apollodorus, E.7.33
- ^ Fabulae 97
- ^ Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 25
- ^ Hyginus, De astronomia 2.8.1
- ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece. 1.30.3.
- ^ Maurus Servius Honoratus. On Aeneid. 10.189.
- ^ Grimal, Pierre; Kershaw, Stephen (1990). A concise dictionary of classical mythology. Internet Archive (Reprint. 1994 ed.). Oxford, England ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-631-16696-2. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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