Alcyone (daughter of Aeolus)

Also known as: Alcyone · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Halcyone)

Life events

• Zeus transformed Alcyone and Ceyx into birds after punishing their pride.(Apollodorus, Library 1.7)
  • With: Ceyx Zeus
  • “But Zeus turned them into birds; her he made a kingfisher ( alcyon) and him a gannet ( ceyx).”

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• parent: Aeolus “and five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, Perimede.”
• married with Ceyx “Alcyone was married by Ceyx, son of Lucifer.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.