Scamandrodice (mythology)

Summary

In Greek mythology, Scamandrodice (Ancient Greek: Σκαμανδροδίκη) was the mother of King Cycnus of Colonae by the sea-god Poseidon. She abandoned her son on the seashore but he was rescued by fishermen who named him Cycnus "swan" because they saw a swan flying over him.[1] In some accounts, the mother of Cycnus was given as Harpale[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.[4]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232
  2. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  4. ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

References edit

  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, 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.