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Cycnus

{{Hatnote|The butterfly genus Cycnus is now synonymized with Panthiades.}}

In Greek mythology, several characters were known as Cycnus (Ancient Greek: Κύκνος) or Cygnus. The literal meaning of the name is "swan", and accordingly most of them ended up being transformed into swans.

  • Cycnus, son of Ares.Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.27.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cycnus 1.27.6]
  • Cycnus, king of Kolonai.Strabo, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+13.1.19&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cycnus 13.1.19] Son of Poseidon.
  • Cycnus, lover of Phaethon.Ovid, Metamorphoses [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+2.367&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cycnus 2.367 sqq.]
  • Cycnus, son of Apollo.Antoninus Liberalis, [https://topostext.org/work/216#12 12]
  • Cycnus, son of King Ederion (Ancient Greek: Ἐδερίων) or Eredion of Achaea, who, in the 6th century CE account of John Malalas, seduced Leda and made her mother of triplets: the Dioscuri and Helen.Malalas, [https://topostext.org/work/793#4.82 82.17]; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#88 88]–[https://topostext.org/work/860#89 89]{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} In all other sources, she had these children by Zeus who approached her in the shape of a swan (kyknos). For more information, see Leda and the Swan.
  • Cycnus, one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium along with other 56 wooers.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.7.26&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=suitors E.7.26]–[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+e.7.27&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Cycnus 27] He, with the other suitors, was shot dead by Odysseus with the assistance of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+Epit.+E.7.33&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=suitors E.7.33]
  • Cycnus, a blunder for Guneus in the manuscript of HyginusFabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#97 97] (list of the Achaean leaders against Troy).

According to Pseudo-Eratosthenes and Hyginus' Poetical Astronomy, the constellation Cygnus was the stellar image of the swan Zeus had transformed into in order to seduce LedaPseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterismi 25 or Nemesis.Hyginus, De astronomia [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.8.1 2.8.1] Pausanias and Servius state that Apollo turned Cycnus of Liguria into a swan after the death of his lover Phaeton, then later placed him among the stars as the constellation Cygnus.{{cite book |author=Pausanias |title=Description of Greece |at=[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Paus.+1.30.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 1.30.3]}}{{cite book |author=Maurus Servius Honoratus |title=On Aeneid |at=[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0053%3Abook%3D10%3Acommline%3D189 10.189]}}{{Cite book |last1=Grimal |first1=Pierre |url=https://archive.org/details/concisedictionar00grim/page/114/mode/2up?view=theater |title=A concise dictionary of classical mythology |last2=Kershaw |first2=Stephen |date=1990 |publisher=Oxford, England ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-631-16696-2 |edition=Reprint. 1994 |pages=114 |access-date=2024-11-02}}

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References

  • Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
  • Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/207 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
  • 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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
  • Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
  • Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
  • Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]

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