Alciope (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Alciope may refer to the three different characters:
- Alciope, the nymph-mother Celmisius.{{Cite book|last=Bayton, Ross|url=|title=RHS Gardener's Botanical: An Encyclopedia of Latin Plant Names|publisher=Octopus Publishing Group|year=2019|isbn=9781784726201|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=D0ipDwAAQBAJ&dq=Alciope+mythology&pg=PA79 79]}}{{Cite book|last=Quattrocchi, Umberto|title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms. Synonyms, and Etymology|publisher=CRC-Press|year=200|isbn=9780849326783|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC&q=Alciope+mythology%2F84&pg=PA84 84]}} In this capacity, she was probably the Alciope who bore to Cronus the Dactyls, one of which Celmis was named.{{Cite book|last=Bullokar, John|title=The English Expositor: Teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our Language|publisher=Samuel Fuller|year=1731|pages=s.v. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Il5gAAAAcAAJ&dq=alciope+mythology&pg=PP310 Idaean Dactyls]}}
- Alciope, one of Apollo's lovers, and the mother of Linus.Photius, Lexicon s.v. Linos
- Alciope, the supposed name of Alciopus' daughter. She was one of Heracles's numerous lovers.{{Cite book|last=Scalding, Henry|url=|title=Toronto of Old|publisher=Dundurn Press|year=1987|isbn=9781459713567|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ix8o5Ct9WFEC&q=Alciope+mythology%2F348&pg=PA348 348]}}