Alcyone (mythology)
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In Greek mythology, Alcyone (/ælˈsaɪ.əniː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυόνη, romanized:Alkyóne, derived from ἀλκυών, alkyón, "kingfisher") was the name of the following personages.
- Alcyone, one of the Pleiades seven sisters.
- Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx.
- Alcyone, daughter of Sthenelus and Nicippe (Antibia or Archippe). She undoubtedly witnessed the results of the labors of Heracles, and she herself was indebted to the hero when he killed Hómados (Ὅμαδος) the Centaur, who had attempted to rape her.
- Alcyone, most commonly called Cleopatra, the wife of Meleager.
- Alcyone, wife of King Chalcodon of Euboea and possible mother of Elephenor.
- Alcyone, a priestess at Argos for three generations before the Trojan War.
- Alcyone, mother of Serus and Alazygus by Halirrhotius, son of Perieres.
- Alcyone, daughter of Sciron who was killed by her father.
Notes
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- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8.
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- Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937–1950.
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. .
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.
- Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.