Alkyone (daughter of Atlas)

Alkyone ( Greek  Ἀλκυόνη ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

Alkyone was one of the Pleiades , daughter of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione . She was the lover of the sea god Poseidon , with whom she had the sons Hyrieus and Hyperenor and the daughter Aithusa , mother of Eleuther . The residents of Troizen postulated that Alkyone of Poseidon also had the sons Hyperes and Anthas , eponyms of the places Hypereia and Antheia, from which by Synoikismos Troizen is said to have emerged; but Anthas is also transferred to Anthedon . Hyginus states that Alkyone also received the Ephokeus or Epopeus from Poseidon.

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Alkyone 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 249 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Alkyone 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Sp. 1580.

Remarks

1. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 1, 1; Diodor , Bibliothéke historiké 3, 60, 4; among others
2. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 10, 1, 2; among others
3. ^ Pausanias , Reisen in Greece 2, 30, 8f.
4. ^ Pausanias, Travels in Greece 9, 22, 5.
5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157.