Cyllene (nymph)
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The ancient Greeks considered Mount Cyllene, the mountain this nymph personified, to be the highest mountain range in the Peloponnese peninsula, and was sacred to Hermes under the localised epithet Cyllenius.[14]
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Footnotes
- ^ Cyllene here forgets to account for Prometheus, Maia's uncle (and thus Hermes' great-uncle) who stole fire from the gods.[13]
Notes
- ^ a b Smith, s.v. Cyllene
- ^ Grimal 1987, s.v. Cyllene.
- ^ Apollodorus 3.8.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1; Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 481
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1.11.2 & 1.13.1; Greek Papyri III No. 140b
- ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
- ^ Ormand 2012, p. 163.
- ^ Vergados 2012, p. 81.
- ^ Vergados 2012, p. 82.
- ^ Vergados 2012, p. 83.
- ^ Shaw 2014, p. 110.
- ^ a b Vergados 2012, p. 84.
- . Retrieved November 3, 2023.
References
- Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- ISBN 0-631-13209-0.
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Ormand, Kirk (2012). A Companion to Sophocles. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-119-02553-5.
- Shaw, Carl (2014). Satyric Play: The Evolution of Greek Comedy and Satyr Drama. ISBN 978-0-19-995094-2.
- Smith, William, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London. John Murray: printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New-Street Square and Parliament Street.
- Vergados, Athanassios (2012). The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes": Introduction, Text and Commentary. ISBN 9783110259704.