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The name Cydippe (
Ancient Greek : Κυδίππη Kudíppē ) is attributed to four individuals in
Greek mythology .
Cydippe, one of the 50
Nereids , sea-
nymph daughters of the '
Old Man of the Sea '
Nereus and the
Oceanid
Doris .
[1]
[2] She was in the train of
Cyrene along with her sisters.
[3]
Cydippe, also called
Crybia or
Lysippe ,
[4] the daughter of the
nymph
Hegetoria and
Ochimus , king of
Rhodes . She married her paternal uncle,
Cercaphus , who inherited the island.
[5] According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to
Ocridion but Cercaphus loved her and kidnapped her. He did not return until Ochimus was old.
[6] Cydippe was by Cercaphus the mother of
Cameirus ,
Ialysus , and
Lindes . Each of them founded a town in Rhodes and named it after himself.
[7]
Cydippe , mother of
Cleobis and Biton .
[8]
Cydippe, an
Athenian girl who was obliged to marry
Acontius .
[9]
Notes
^
Hyginus , Fabulae
Preface
^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 93.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^
Virgil ,
Georgics
4.339
^ Footnote 92 as cited in
Pliny the Elder ,
Naturalis Historia
35.36
^
Diodorus Siculus ,
5.57.7
^
Plutarch , Quaestiones Graecae
27
^ Diodorus Siculus,
5.57.8
^
Herodotus , 1.31
^
Callimachus , Cydippe ;
Ovid ,
Heroides 20-21
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