Corcyra

A daughter of Asopus, from whom the island of Corcyra derived its name, which was previously called Scheria.1

Others call her Cercyre, daughter of Asopus and Metope, and say that she was carried of by Poseidon to Corcyra where she bore him a son, Phaeax, the eponymous ancestor of the Phaeacians.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 5.2.
  2. Diodorus Siculus, iv, 72.1-5.

Source

  • Hederich, Benjamin. (1770). Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon. Leipzig, p. 777.