Cissa

One of the nine daughters of King Pierus, called the Pierides. After losing a contest with the Muses she and her sisters were transformed into birds. Cissa became a magpie (genus Cissa).

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References

Sources

  • Antoninus Liberalis, 9.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses v, 295 ff.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 29.4.