Cycnus

Role: son of Ares · First appears: Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 4

Life events

• Heracles kills Cycnus, the hostile enemy of strangers.(Euripides, Hercules Distracted — Scene 3 · 📍 Amphanea)
  • With: Heracles
  • “Inhuman Cycnus, son of Mars, next felt The force of his resounding bow, Unsocial wretch, the stranger’s foe, Who in Amphanea dwelt.”

Euripides, Alcestis — Scene 4

• parent: Ares “And this labor, thou talkest of, is one my fate compels me to (for it is ever hard and tends to steeps); if I must join in battle with the children whom Mars begat, first indeed with Lycaon, and again with Cycnus, and I come to this third combat, about to engage with the horses and their master.”
• enemies with Heracles “if I must join in battle with the children whom Mars begat, first indeed with Lycaon, and again with Cycnus”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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