Scamandrodice (mythology) explained

In Greek mythology, Scamandrodice (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Σκαμανδροδίκη|Skamandrodíkē|justice of the Scamander) was the mother of King Cycnus of Colonae by the sea-god Poseidon. She abandoned her son on the seashore but he was rescued by fishermen who named him Cycnus "swan" because they saw a swan flying over him.^[1] In some accounts, the mother of Cycnus was given as Harpale^[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton^[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.^[4]

Notes

1. [Tzetzes]
2. [Scholia]
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.