Scamandrodice (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Scamandrodice (Ancient Greek: Σκαμανδροδίκη) was the mother of King Cycnus of Colonae by the sea-god Poseidon. She abandoned her son on the seashore but he was rescued by fishermen who named him Cycnus "swan" because they saw a swan flying over him.[1] In some accounts, the mother of Cycnus was given as Harpale[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.[4]

Notes

Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232
Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
Hyginus, Fabulae 157
Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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[:1-1] Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232

[2] Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147

[3] Hyginus, Fabulae 157

[:2-4] Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.