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Cyllene (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Cyllene (Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη Kyllênê) may refer to two characters:
- Cyllene, an Arcadian oread (mountain-nymph) who gave her name to the Mt. Cyllene.[1] She nursed the infant god Hermes, who was born on Mt. Cyllene.[2] She became the wife of Pelasgus[3] by whom she bore the impious king, Lycaon.[4] Otherwise, the latter's mother was either the Oceanid Meliboea[5] or Deianira, daughter of another Lycaon.[6] In some accounts, Cyllene was instead the wife of Lycaon[7] but in others versions of the myth, his wife was called Nonacris.[8]
- Cyllene, an Arcadian daughter of Menephron who was raped by her father.[9] In some accounts, Menephon was the son who ravished his mother Cyllene.[10]
- ^ Fowler, Robert L. (2013). Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Ormand, Kirk (2012). A Companion to Sophocles. Wiley Blackwell. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-119-02553-5.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 225
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 1642
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.11.2 & 1.13.1; Greek Papyri III No. 140b
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 253
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.386
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