Cyllene (mythology) explained

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

• Cyllene, an Arcadian oread (mountain-nymph) who gave her name to the Mt. Cyllene.^[1] She nursed the infant god Hermes, who was born on Mt. Cyllene.^[2] She became the wife of Pelasgus^[3] by whom she bore the impious king, Lycaon.^[4] Otherwise, the latter's mother was either the Oceanid Meliboea^[5] or Deianira, daughter of another Lycaon.^[6] In some accounts, Cyllene was instead the wife of Lycaon^[7] but in others versions of the myth, his wife was called Nonacris.^[8]
• Cyllene, an Arcadian daughter of Menephron who was raped by her father.^[9] In some accounts, Menephon was the son who ravished his mother Cyllene.^[10]

Notes

1. Book: [[Robert Fowler (academic)|Fowler, Robert L.]]. Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary. Oxford University Press. 2013. 978-0-19-814741-1. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 107.
2. Book: . Kirk . Ormand . Wiley Blackwell . 978-1-119-02553-5 . 2012 . 163.
3. [Hyginus]
4. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
5. Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 481
6. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus]
7. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
8. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
9. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]
10. [Ovid]

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.
• Fowler, Robert L., Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013.
• 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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.