Cydon

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.^[1] Alternately, Cydon was a native of Crete, son of Acacallis by Hermes^[2] or Apollo.^[3] He is probably the same as Cydon, the father of Eulimene.^[4] The town of Cydonia was named after him.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
  • Son of Abas, was killed by Parthenopaeus.^[7]
  • Another Theban, killed by Hippomedon.^[8]
• Cydon of Lemnos, half-brother of Hypsipyle. Was slain by Myrmidone the night all Lemnian men were killed by their women.^[9]
• Cydon, an ally of Turnus, lover of Clytius. Clytius fell in the battle against Aeneas.^[10]
• Cydon, one of the horses of Hippodamus.^[11]

Notes

References

• Parthenius, Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. 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. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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