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KYLLENE

Greek Name

Κυλληνη

Transliteration

Kyllênê

Latin Spelling

Cyllene

Translation

Of Mount Cyllene

KYLLENE (Cyllene) was an Oreiad-nymph of Mount Kyllene (Cyllene) in Arkadia (southern Greece). She was the wife of Pelasgos (Pelasgus), the first king of Arkadia who lived in the days before the Great Deluge.

Kyllene was perhaps identified with Meliboia, the wife of Pelasgos in other accounts.


PARENTS

Nowhere stated

OFFSPRING

LYKAON (by Pelasgos) (Apollodorus 3.96)


ENCYCLOPEDIA

CYLLE′NE (Kullênê), a nymph, who became the mother of Lycaon by Pelasgus. (Apollod. iii. 8. § 1.) According to others, she was the wife of Lycaon. (Dionys. Hal. A. R. i. 13.)

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 96 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Pelasgos (Pelasgus) and Okeanos' (Oceanus') daughter Meliboia (Meliboea), or, according to others, a Nymphe named Kyllene (Cyllene), had a son Lykaon (Lycaon), who ruled over the Arkadians."


SOURCES

GREEK

OTHER SOURCES

Other references not currently quoted here: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.13.1.

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