In Greek mythology, Harpale (Ancient Greek: Αρπάλε) was the mother of Poseidon's son Cycnus, king of Colonae in Troad.[1] Otherwise, the mother of the latter was called Scamandrodice[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton,[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.[4]
Notes
edit- ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 232
- ^ 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
edit- 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.