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

  1. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232
  2. Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  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.

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