Cyane

A Sicilian nymph and playmate of Persephone, who was changed through grief at the loss of Persephone into a well. The Syracusans celebrated an annual festival on that spot, which Heracles was said to have instituted, and at which a bull was sunk into the well as a sacrifice.

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References

Sources

  • Diodorus Siculus, v, 4.
  • Ovid. Metamorphoses v, 412 ff.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.