Scamandrodice_(mythology)

Scamandrodice (mythology)

Scamandrodice (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Scamandrodice (Ancient Greek: Σκαμανδροδίκη) 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]

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  1. [1]
    Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232
  2. [2]
    Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
  3. [3]
    Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  4. [4]
    Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

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