Kydon (eponym)
Kydon ( Greek Κύδων ), son of Akakallis and father of Eulimene , is a figure in Greek mythology .
Kydon was the founder of the Cretan city of Kydonia . As for his father, the sources differ; called Apollo , tegeates and Hermes . From coin portraits of the city of Kydonia, which show Kydon as a boy suckled by a bitch, one concludes that in the latter version of the legend Akakallis abandoned the boy for fear of her father Minos , whereupon Hermes sent a bitch who suckled Kydon and thus kept him alive. On other coins of Kydonia, Kydon appears armed with a bow and in the company of a dog.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kydon 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 1674 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Jakob Pley : Kydon 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Col. 2304 f.