Cyprus

Place · slug: cyprus

Also: sea-girt, billowy Cyprus, Byblos region, Salamis in Cyprus, Amathus

Stories (11)

Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
Ares and Aphrodite Caught by Hephaestus
Olympian gods · Homeric — Demodocus’s song in *Odyssey* 8
Marriage of Hephaestus and Aphrodite
Olympian gods — Hephaestus / Aphrodite · Homeric marital pairing (beyond the net-song) / handbook olympian household
Aphrodite and Adonis: Love and Death by the Boar (Classical)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / Adonis · Apollodorean / mythographic classical (vs. Bion’s lament)
Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite (6 and 10)
Olympian gods — Aphrodite / short Homeric Hymns · Homeric Hymns VI and X — foam-born Cyprian praise; Theban/Cytherean cult titles
Ariadne on Naxos: Abandonment and Dionysus
Heroes — Theseus · Apollodorean main line (Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos/Dia; Dionysus takes her); alternate classical strands noted
Teucer’s Exile from Salamis and the Founding of Cyprian Salamis
Trojan — Nostoi / Aeacid aftermath · Tragic / Apollodorean / Pausanian (Telamon’s rejection; Cyprus foundation)
Cinyras and the Clay Ships
Trojan — Cypria / Cypriot king’s false contribution · Epic Cycle / handbook — Cinyras promises ships to Agamemnon; sends clay models
Adonis: Aphrodite and the Boar
Local and lesser — Cypriot / Levantine cult myth in Greek dress · Apollodorean (birth from Myrrha/Smyrna; Aphrodite; Persephone; boar death); Bion’s *Lament*
Pygmalion
Local and lesser — Cypriot · Roman transmission (Ovid); Greek notices of Pygmalion as Cypriot king/sculptor vary
Cinyras and Myrrha
Local and lesser — Cypriot kingship / Adonis prelude · Apollodorean / Pindaric notices of Cinyras; Myrrha crime as household disaster

Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Cyprus

Stories (11)

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