Cleopatra Alcyone

For other uses, see Alcyone (mythology) and Cleopatra (Greek myth).

Cleopatrē Alcyone (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρη Ἀλκυόνη, romanized: Kleopátrē Alkuónē) was the daughter of Idas and Marpessa and the wife of Meleager, a Calydonian prince and participant in the Calydonian boar hunt.[1] Together they had a daughter, Polydora. According to Greek traveler and geographer Pausanias, Polydora was the wife of Protesilas, the first soldier to leap ashore in Troy, and therefore the first to die in the Trojan War.[2]

  1. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, 2 as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses
  2. ^ Pausanias; Jones, William Henry Samuel; Ormerod, Henry Arderne; Wycherley, Richard Ernest (1977). "2". Description of Greece. Loeb classical library. Vol. 4. Cambridge (Mass.) London: Harvard university press W. Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-674-99104-0.