Alcyone

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.7

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

Alcyone is named as a daughter of Aeolus, alongside Canace, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede. She is also given as a daughter of Sthenelus and Nicippe, and as one of the Pleiades born to Atlas and Pleione at Cyllene in Arcadia. With Atlas, she was the mother of Aethusa, Hyrieus, and Hyperenor; with Chalcodon, she was the mother of Elephenor.

Alcyone married Ceyx, son of Lucifer. After Zeus punished their pride, “But Zeus turned them into birds; her he made a kingfisher ( alcyon) and him a gannet ( ceyx).”

Relationship record

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.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.4

• parent: Sthenelus “Sthenelus had daughters, Alcyone and Medusa, by Nicippe, daughter of Pelops”
• parent: Nicippe “Sthenelus had daughters, Alcyone and Medusa, by Nicippe, daughter of Pelops”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• parent: Atlas “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
• parent: Pleione “Atlas and Pleione, daughter of Ocean, had seven daughters called the Pleiades, born to them at Cyllene in Arcadia , to wit: Alcyone, Merope, Celaeno, Electra, Sterope, Taygete, and Maia.”
• child: Aethusa “and second with Alcyone, who bore a daughter, Aethusa, the mother of Eleuther by Apollo, and two sons Hyrieus and Hyperenor.”
• child: Hyrieus “and two sons Hyrieus and Hyperenor.”
• child: Hyperenor “and two sons Hyrieus and Hyperenor.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• child: Elephenor “Of the Euboeans, Elephenor, son of Chalcodon and Alcyone: he brought forty ships.”
• parent: Elephenor “Elephenor, son of Chalcodon and Alcyone”

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