Cyane

Family: Sicilian nymphs · Role: nymph · First appears: Fable 51

Life events

Cyane dissolves completely into tears and becomes the waters of her fountain.(Fable51)
- “But Cyane, lamenting both the ravished Goddess, and the slighted privileges of her spring, carries in her silent mind an inconsolable wound, and is entirely dissolved into tears, and melts away into those waters, of which she had been but lately the great guardian Divinity.”
Cyane gives birth to twins, Byblis and Caunus.(Fable81)
- With: Byblis Caunus
- “Here Cyane, the daughter of {the river} Mæander, that so often returns to the same place, while she was following the windings of her father’s bank, of a body excelling in beauty, being known by thee, brought forth a double offspring, Byblis, with Caunus, {her brother}.”

courtship with Anapis (Cyane says that Anapis loved and courted her.) “Anapis[55] also loved me. Yet I married him, courted, and not frightened {into it}, like her.”

with Ceres (Ceres encounters Cyane during her search.) “She returns to Sicily; and while, in her passage, she views all {places}, she comes, too, to Cyane; she, had she not been transformed, would have told her everything.”

parent: Mæander “Here Cyane, the daughter of {the river} Mæander”
child: Byblis “Here Cyane, the daughter of {the river} Mæander, that so often returns to the same place, while she was following the windings of her father’s bank, of a body excelling in beauty, being known by thee, brought forth a double offspring, Byblis”
child: Caunus “Here Cyane, the daughter of {the river} Mæander, that so often returns to the same place, while she was following the windings of her father’s bank, of a body excelling in beauty, being known by thee, brought forth a double offspring, Byblis, with Caunus”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.