The Argonautica

Cyllenus

Family: Idaean Dactyls · Role: dispenser of doom · First appears: Book I 9

Book I 9

  • parent: Anchiale “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother,—the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.”
  • with Rhea (Cyllenus is named as an assessor of the Idaean mother, Rhea.) “Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean mother”

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