Harpale (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Harpale (Ancient Greek: Αρπάλε) was the mother of Poseidon's son Cycnus, king of Colonae in Troad.^[1] Otherwise, the mother of the latter was called Scamandrodice^[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton,^[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.^[4]

Notes

1. [Scholia]
2. [Tzetzes]
3. [Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]
4. Book: Murray, John. A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. 1833. Albemarle Street, London. 78.

References

• 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.