Cydon
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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.Pausanias, 8.53.4 Alternately, Cydon was a native of Crete, son of Acacallis by HermesPausanias, 8.53; Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1492 or Apollo.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Kydonia He is probably the same as Cydon, the father of Eulimene.Parthenius, [https://topostext.org/work/550#35 35] The town of Cydonia was named after him.[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D8%3Achapter%3D53%3Asection%3D4 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.53.4]
- Cydon of Thebes, name shared by three defenders of Thebes in the war of the Seven against Thebes:
- One of the fifty warriors who laid an ambush against Tydeus and were killed by him.Statius, Thebaid 2.623
- Son of Abas, was killed by Parthenopaeus.Statius, Thebaid 9.759
- Another Theban, killed by Hippomedon.Statius, Thebaid 9.127
- Cydon of Lemnos, half-brother of Hypsipyle. Was slain by Myrmidone the night all Lemnian men were killed by their women.Statius, Thebaid 5.220
- Cydon, an ally of Turnus, lover of Clytius. Clytius fell in the battle against Aeneas.Virgil, Aeneid 10.324 ff.
- Cydon, one of the horses of Hippodamus.Statius, Thebaid 6.465
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References
- Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. [https://topostext.org/work/550 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0643 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}}. [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 Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
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