Candybus Explained

In Greek mythology, Candybus (Ancient Greek: Κάνδυβος) was a Phthian prince. Candybus was the son of the King Deucalion^[1] and probably Pyrrha, daughter of the Titan Epimetheus and Pandora. He was the possible brother of Hellen,^[2] Amphictyon,^[3] Pandora II,^{[4] [5]} Protogeneia,^[6] Thyia^[7] and Melantho.^[8]

Stephanus of Byzantium reports a mythic tradition that the town of Kandyba in Lycia was named after Candybus.

Notes

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
2. Apollodorus, 1.7.2
3. Apollodorus, 1.7.2 & 3.14.6
4. [Hesiod]
5. Book: Most, Glenn W.. Hesioi: The Shield, Catalogue of Women and Other Fragments. Harvard University Press. 2007. 978-0-674-99623-6. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. 42–45.
6. Apollodorus, 1.7.2
7. [Hesiod]
8. [Tzetzes]

References

• 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.