Cycnus

Character · slug: cycnus

Also: of Liguria

Phaethon and the Sun Chariot
Olympian gods / Helios · Euripidean fragments + Roman transmission (Ovid) of the sun-chariot fall
Eleventh Labor: Apples of the Hesperides (Nereus, Atlas Holds the Sky)
Heroes — Heracles · Apollodorean / Pherecydian (apples among Hyperboreans by Atlas; Nereus compelled for guidance; Atlas fetches fruit while Heracles bears the sky; craft-return of the burden; Ladon present as guardian but not slain in this plot)
Cycnus Son of Ares: Combat on the Way to the Hesperides (or at Itonus)
Heroes — Heracles · Hesiodic *Shield* / Apollodorean (Cycnus waylays pilgrims; Heracles kills him; Ares engages and is wounded or parted by Zeus)
Tenes of Tenedos
Heroes / Trojan periphery — Tenedian eponym / Achilles cycle · Apollodorean / Pausanian / cyclic notices — false accusation; exile; Achilles’ killing
Landing at Troy: Protesilaus and Cycnus
Trojan · Epic Cycle — *Cypria* (Proclus) / Apollodorean (+ Homeric Protesilaus notice)
The Heliades: Amber Tears
Local and lesser — Helios / Phaethon aftermath / aetiology of amber · Ovid-labeled Roman fullest narrative + Greek tragic/fragmentary and handbook notices
Cycnus of Liguria Mourns Phaethon (Swan; Ovid-Labeled)
Local and lesser — Phaethon aftermath / metamorphosis · Roman transmission (Ovid) of Ligurian Cycnus’s swan change — distinct from Poseidon’s Cycnus and from Ares’s Cycnus

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library