Cydippe

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The name Cydippe (Ancient Greek: Κυδίππη Kudíppē) is attributed to four individuals in Greek mythology.

  • Cydippe, one of the 50 Nereids, sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[1][2] She was in the train of Cyrene along with her sisters.[3]
  • Cydippe, also called Crybia or Lysippe,[4] the daughter of the nymph Hegetoria and Ochimus, king of Rhodes. She married Ochimus' brother, Cercaphus, who inherited the island.[5] According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to Ocridion but Cercaphus loved her and kidnapped her. He did not return until Ochimus was old.[6] Cydippe was by Cercaphus the mother of Cameirus, Ialysus, and Lindes. Each of them founded a town in Rhodes and named it after himself.[7]
  • Cydippe, mother of Cleobis and Biton.[8]
  • Cydippe, an Athenian girl who was obliged to marry Acontius.[9][10]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  2. ^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 9780786471119.
  3. ^ Virgil, Georgics 4.339
  4. ^ Footnote 92 as cited in Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.36
  5. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.57.7
  6. ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 27
  7. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.57.8
  8. ^ Herodotus, 1.31
  9. ^ Callimachus, Cydippe; Ovid, Heroides 20-21
  10. ^ Ovid, Heroides 20-21

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