Cycnus

"Swan." A son of Ares and Pyrene, was likewise killed by Heracles in single combat.1 At his death he was changed by his father Ares into a swan.2

This and the other Cycnus, likewise a son of Ares, are often confounded with each other, on account of the resemblance existing between the stories about them.

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 5.11; Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes xii, 19.
  2. Eustathius on Homer, p. 254.

Sources

  • Athenaeus, ix, p. 393.
  • Hyginus. Fabulae, 31.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes ii, 147; on Aristophanes. The Frogs, 963.
  • 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.