Cyllene

In Greek mythology, Cyllene (Ancient Greek: Κυλλήνη Kyllênê) may refer to two characters:

Cyllene, an Arcadian oread (tree-nymph) who gave her name to the Mt. Cyllene. She was became the wife Pelasgus[1] by whom she bore the impious king, Lycaon.[2] Otherwise, the latter's mother was either the Oceanid Meliboea[3] or Deianira, daughter of another Lycaon.[4] In some accounts, Cyllene was instead the wife of Lycaon[5] but in others versions of the myth, his wife was called Nonacris.[6]

Cyllene , an Arcadian daughter of Menephron who was raped by her father.[7] In some accounts, Menephon was the son who ravished his mother Cyllene.[8]

Notes

Hyginus, Fabulae 225
Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 1642
Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 481
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.11.2 & 1.13.1; Greek Papyri III No. 140b
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.17.6
Hyginus, Fabulae 253

Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.386

References

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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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.
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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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