Sicyon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Sicyon (/ˈsɪkn/; Ancient Greek: Σικυών) is the eponym of the polis of the same name, which was said to have previously been known as Aegiale[1][2] and, earlier, Mecone.[3] His father is named variously as Marathon, Metion, Erechtheus or Pelops.[4] Sicyon married Zeuxippe, the daughter of Lamedon, the previous king of the polis and region that would come to be named after him.[1] They had a daughter Chthonophyle, who bore two sons: Polybus to Hermes and, later, Androdamas to Phlius, the son of Dionysus.[5] However, in some accounts, Chthnophyle bore Phlius to Dionysus instead.[6][7]

Notes

  1. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.5
  2. Strabo, Geographica 8.6.25 gives the form Aegialeis.
  3. Strabo, Geographica 8.6.25
  4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.5, citing Asius of Samos for Metion, Hesiod (Ehoiai fr. 224) for Erechtheus, and Ibycus for Pelops.
  5. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.6
  6. Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Phlius
  7. Scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.115

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