Korkyra (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Corcyra /kɔːrˈsaɪərə/ or Korkyra /kɔːrˈkaɪərə/(Ancient Greece: Κόρκυρα means ') was the naiad daughter of the Asopos river[1] and the nymph Metope, daughter of the river-god Ladon.[2]

Family

Korykra was the sister of Pelasgus (Pelagon[3]), Ismenus, Chalcis, Cleone, Salamis, Sinope, Aegina, Peirene, Thebe, Tanagra, Thespia, Asopis, Ornea,[4] Harpina,[5] Antiope,[6] Nemea[7] and Plataea[8] (Oeroe[9]).

Mythology

According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, kidnapped her and brought her to a hitherto unnamed island (Scheria[10]) and offered her name to the place: Korkyra or the now-modern Kerkyra (known in English as Corfu, a name that is unrelated by origin).

"Next after them they came to Corcyra, where Poseidon settled the daughter of Asopus, fair-haired Corcyra, far from the land of Phlious, whence he had carried her off through love; and sailors beholding it from the sea, all black with its sombre woods, call it Corcyra the Black."[11]

Together they had a child Phaiax after whom the inhabitants of the island, Phaiakes, were named; their name was later transliterated in Latinate orthography to Phaeacians.[12]

Notes

  1. Bacchylides, fr. 9; Corinna, fr. 654 (trans. Campbell); Apollonius Rhodius, 4.568; Pausanias, 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
  2. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
  3. Apollodorus, 3.12.6
  4. Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1
  5. Diodorus Siculus, 4.73.1; Pausanias, 5.22.6
  6. Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
  7. Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
  8. Pausanias, 9.1.1–2 & 9.3.1
  9. Pausanias, 9.4.4
  10. Pausanias, 2.5.2
  11. Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.566–571
  12. Bacchylides, fr. 9; Corinna, fr. 654 (trans. Campbell); Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.3; Pausanias, 5.22.6

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