Scamandrodice (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Scamandrodice (Ancient Greek: Σκαμανδροδίκη, romanized: Skamandrodíkē, lit. 'justice of the Scamander') was the mother of King Cycnus of Colonae by the sea-god Poseidon. She abandoned her son on the seashore but he was rescued by fishermen who named him Cycnus "swan" because they saw a swan flying over him.^[1] In some accounts, the mother of Cycnus was given as Harpale^[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton^[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.^[4]

Notes

^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232
^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

References

Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

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[:1-1] Tzetzes on Lycophron, 232

[2] Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147

[3] Hyginus, Fabulae 157

[:2-4] Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

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