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Various mythological figures
In
Greek mythology , the name Cydon (
Ancient Greek : Κύδων) may refer to:
Cydon of
Crete ,
eponym of
Cydonia . According to one version, he was a son of
Tegeates and possibly,
Maera , daughter of the
Titan
Atlas . He was the brother of
Leimon ,
Schephrus ,
Gortys and
Archedius : the three brothers were said to have migrated to Crete from
Arcadia .
[1] Alternately, Cydon was a native of Crete, son of
Acacallis by
Hermes
[2] or
Apollo .
[3] He is probably the same as Cydon, the father of
Eulimene .
[4]
Cydon of
Thebes , name shared by three defenders of Thebes in the war of the
Seven against Thebes :
Cydon of
Lemnos , half-brother of
Hypsipyle . Was slain by
Myrmidone the night all Lemnian men were killed by their women.
[8]
Cydon, an ally of
Turnus , lover of
Clytius . Clytius fell in the battle against
Aeneas .
[9]
Cydon, one of the horses of
Hippodamus .
[10]
Notes
^
Pausanias , 8.53.4
^ Pausanias, 8.53;
Scholia on
Apollonius Rhodius ,
Argonautica 4.1492
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Kydonia
^
Parthenius , Erotica Pathemata 35
^
Statius , Thebaid 2.623
^ Statius, Thebaid 9.759
^ Statius, Thebaid 9.127
^ Statius, Thebaid 5.220
^
Virgil ,
Aeneid 10.324 ff.
^ Statius, Thebaid 6.465
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Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1 . Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
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Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Vergilius Maro , Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics . J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Stephanus of Byzantium , Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.