Kyknos (son of Sthenelos)

Kyknos ( ancient Greek Κύκνος , Latin mostly Cycnus , "swan"; in Hyginus Cygnus ), is the son of Sthenelos in Greek mythology .

Cyknos was king of the Ligurians and a relative, friend or, in later versions of the myth, also a lover of Phaethon . When Phaethon falls dead from heaven into the river Eridanus , Cyknos rushes over and mourns for him. From Apollo he is then transformed into a swan out of pity.

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• Ovid , Metamorphoses 2,367-380.
• Hyginus , Fabulae 154.
• Virgil , Aeneid 10.186.

literature

• Ada Adler : Kyknos 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Col. 2441 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Richard Engelmann : Kyknos 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1698 f. ( Digitized version ).