Sicyon (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Sicyon (/ˈsɪkiːoʊn/; 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
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.5
- Strabo, Geographica 8.6.25 gives the form Aegialeis.
- Strabo, Geographica 8.6.25
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.5, citing Asius of Samos for Metion, Hesiod (Ehoiai fr. 224) for Erechtheus, and Ibycus for Pelops.
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.6.6
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Phlius
- Scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.115
References
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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