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]

^ 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.

[: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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Scamandrodice (mythology)

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