Ceyx

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

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

Life events

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

Apollodorus, Library 1.7

• married with Alcyone “Alcyone was married by Ceyx, son of Lucifer.”
• parent: Lucifer “Ceyx, son of Lucifer.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• with Heracles (Hercules departed to Ceyx.) “resolved to depart to Ceyx at Trachis .”
• child: Hippasus (parent->child) “Hippasus, son of Ceyx”
• with Heracles (interaction) “And when he came to Ceyx at Trachis he was received by him and conquered the Dryopes.”

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