Syke (nymph)

Syke ( Greek  Συκῆ ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to Pherenikos , a Greek epic of an indefinite, perhaps Hellenistic period, she was a hamadryad , one of those nymphs who live in trees and are closely connected with the fate of the tree. In the genealogy of the Hamadryads handed down by Pherenikos at Athenaios , she is a daughter of Oxylos , the son of Oreios , and his sister Hamadryas . Her sisters, whose names were handed down to Athenaios, were Karya , Balanos , Orea , Aigeiros , Kraneia , Ampelos and Ptelea . In addition, according to Pherenikos, she had other sisters. The name of each of these daughters was the inspiration for the Greek name of a tree species, Syke for the fig tree , Ptelea for the elm , Kraneia for the cornel , Aigeiros for the black poplar and Balanos for the oak .

source

• Pherenikos in Athenaios, Deipnosophistai 3, 78 B

literature

• Cruiser: Syke 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, column 1617 ( digitized version ).
• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Hamadryads . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Sp. 1827 ( digitized version ).